No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It looks like I had the most irrelevant education than anybody in the planet could have. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“True ownership can come only from within. It comes from a disdain for anything or anybody that impinges upon your mobility, from… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It's experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
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
Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence.… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
A lot of people in college go astray because they choose something that doesn't really, really connect to them. And if it… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
You could have a lot of money at your fingertips, the finest education and intellectual knowledge, but if you are governed by… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“All of us have access to a higher form of intelligence, one that can allow us to see more of the world,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“In all of these areas, the human brain is asked to do and handle more than ever before. We are dealing with… — 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 Image
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 Image
You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
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 Image
Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
