The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical.… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When people are too present, too familiar or too in our face, something happens to us psychologically. We begin to tune them… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
If you're in a subordinate position of some sort and pretty much all of us are at some point in our lives,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing. — 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
