Ideas Quotes by Robert Greene

People who are reading my books, or who are thinking about it, have some general idea about the concept of strategy. They're…

— Robert Greene

The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or…

— Robert Greene

As most people when I entered the work world, suddenly people are playing games, being manipulative, being a little bit nasty, you…

— Robert Greene

It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course…

— Robert Greene

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…

— Robert Greene

People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on…

— Robert Greene

Most people are passive aggressive in this world. I have the idea that the human being is born with a kind of…

— Robert Greene

Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in…

— Robert Greene

You could have a lot of money at your fingertips, the finest education and intellectual knowledge, but if you are governed by…

— Robert Greene

If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox way, people will think that you…

— Robert Greene

Nobody that I know really likes the feeling of having no power and not being able to influence people. But most of…

— Robert Greene

There's a real tension between it being a collaborative art process, which is almost like performance art of yourself, and, as we…

— Robert Greene

I was working on other things and I wanted to make a film, and I had some ideas brewing in my head.…

— Robert Greene

The idea of social performance, that we're always performing identities, is something I got fairly obsessed with. I think it's probably because…

— Robert Greene

Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you…

— Robert Greene