One could draw up all different kinds of adversity depending on what your weakness is. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It's fortunately a kind of society we live in where we can be diverse. People can take different paths and not feel… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Here in Beacon, I feel like this was the worst year yet. The entire town, like a lot of winter towns, just… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
No one's really taking it seriously enough, being more kind of careful and cautious in planning your life out and trying to… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I have sort of issues with my claustrophobia where being on an airplane or if I force myself, to put myself in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
You have a set of skills, a way of looking at the world, and often in childhood it was revealed to you… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Most people are passive aggressive in this world. I have the idea that the human being is born with a kind of… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
If you are interested in a form of science or interested in a particular kind of business or whatever - or if… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Things like reading a book or learning a language, or taking a walk - they're not stimulating. Your mind has to sort… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I believe that everybody was born with a kind of uniqueness. There is never going to be somebody else with the same… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
There's physical adversity, that if you are someone that likes exercise like I do, I exercise everyday. When you exercise, there's pain… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Nobody that I know really likes the feeling of having no power and not being able to influence people. But most of… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
As most people when I entered the work world, suddenly people are playing games, being manipulative, being a little bit nasty, you… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
There are people that don't need to run towards adversity. They grew up in circumstances where it's forced upon them. Other people… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I hate the way war is seen as something inherently brutal and ugly. Yes, much of war brings out the worst part… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause… — 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… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
One person reads the book, and cannot help telling a friend. That is vastly superior to any kind of advertisement, or clever… — 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
Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
If you want to be powerful in life you have to enjoy the process. You have to get pleasure out of making… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
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 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
![“I hate the way war is seen as something inherently brutal and ugly. Yes, much of war brings out the worst part of our [people's] nature. But in war, all kinds of noble human traits have been developed, such as discipline, cohesion, pride.” quote by Robert Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ef/robert-greene-498_all-kinds_i-hate-the-way-war-is-seen-as-something_432311.png)
