If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Whether people are making narrative cinema or experimental cinematic movie experiences, they all want the biggest screen possible and the quietest room… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
You want attention, you want to grab some of that airspace that exists out there in a world that's very difficult to… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers. Because of these judgments, we might see our… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox way, people will think that you… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if… — Robert Greene Copy Share
I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time. — Robert Greene Copy Share
You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset. — Robert Greene Copy Share
Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things,… — Robert Greene Copy Share
Everybody knows what they were kind of drawn towards or what they're gifted at and it's more of courage and looking at yourself and… — Robert Greene Copy Share
Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they… — Robert Greene Copy Share
I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could… — Robert Greene Copy Share
It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome… — Robert Greene Copy Share
If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or… — Robert Greene Copy Share
Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your… — Robert Greene Copy Share
Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that… — Robert Greene Copy Share
What I like about the internet, what I see there is that its much more democratic. I have much more control, and if what… — Robert Greene Copy Share
“It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grasslands of East Africa some six… — Robert Greene Copy Share
“Let us call this quality the Original Mind. This mind looked at the world more directly—not through words and received ideas. It was flexible… — Robert Greene Copy Share
