Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
You're always feeling powerless in life. If you're in an abusive relationship or working for what we call a psychotic boss sometimes… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“At your birth a seed is planted. That seed is your uniqueness. It wants to grow, transform itself, and flower to its… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I'm okay for things like theater and stuff but for film, I just didn't think in the right way and I didn't… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Too often we make a separation in our lives—there is work and there is life outside work, where we find real pleasure… — 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
“A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don’t try too much in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people… — 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
The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
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
I just know who I am and what's comfortable for me and I don't personally do things in life because others do… — 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
“[Strategy] is more than a science: it is the application of knowledge to practical life, the development of thought capable of modifying… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The point of the adversity is to toughen your mind so that you can handle difficult circumstances in life. Your mind, toughen… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you've ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It's… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
You can never get rid of all of your fears. Some are necessary and a part of life. But most of our… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or… — 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
