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 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
If you're just letting the time pass at your job, it's just dead time and you'll never get it back. If at… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“There are three kinds of time for us to deal with; each presents problems that can be solved with skill and practice.… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“When people choose between talk about the past and talk about the future, a pragmatic person will always opt for the future… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I have an argument that to master any field, it's simple: it's a function of time. How much you devote yourself to… — 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
“Instead of spending your time dreaming of your plan’s happy ending, you must work on calculating every possible permutation and pitfall that… — 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
The problem is the book business is changing so we're in a difficult moment now and if the business model is changing,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“LAW 38 Think As You Like But Behave Like Others If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of dreams, desires,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
In the past, Being able to follow what you're naturally "should" be good at was limited to a very few people in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“When the evening began, Fouquet was at the top of the world. By the time it had ended, he was at the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I… — 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
The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
We have consciousness and rational powers but unless you're willing to spend the time to gain control of yourself, gain control of… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as… — 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
Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside. — 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
