Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself. They will often dis… - Robert Greene

little about your work, tease and titillate with alluring, even contradictory comments, then stand back and let others try to make sense of it all.

Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions.

Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can name great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole. — FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE