I don't want to promote paranoia. It's not like wow, everybody is after me. You know that's not going to be very… — Robert Greene Destroying Copy Share Image
Ah were she pitiful as she is fair, Or but as mild as she is seeming so, Then were my hopes greater… — Robert Greene Despair Copy Share Image
What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are… — Robert Greene Behalf 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 Adult 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… — Robert Greene Consequences 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 Art 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 Ability 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 Book 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 Attention 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 Advertisements Copy Share Image
Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to… — Robert Greene Assuming 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 End time Copy Share Image
“Long Time. The famous seventeenth-century Ming painter Chou Yung relates a story that altered his behavior forever. Late one winter afternoon he… — Robert Greene Long time 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 Career 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 Able Copy Share Image
“All of us have access to a higher form of intelligence, one that can allow us to see more of the world,… — Robert Greene Education 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 Art of life Copy Share Image
Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus… — Robert Greene Amber Copy Share Image
“Through continual exposure to people and by attempting to think inside of them we can gain an increasing sense of their perspective,… — Robert Greene Perspective 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 Aggression Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in being an entrepreneur. It's easy for me to say because I work for myself and I am… — Robert Greene Believer 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… — Robert Greene Information Copy Share Image
“A Prince asked the dying spanish statesman, "Does your Excellency forgive all your enemies?" "I do not have to forgive all my… — Robert Greene Death Copy Share Image
It was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and… — Robert Greene Book Copy Share Image
I didn't like writing just articles and things. So then I wandered around. I tried my hand at film and television and… — Robert Greene Articles Copy Share Image
If you love music and it requires hours of practice that can be boring, you can survive the boredom, you're not going… — Robert Greene Boredom Copy Share Image
“the goal of an apprenticeship is not money, a good position, a title, or a diploma, but rather the transformation of your… — Robert Greene Apprenticeship Copy Share Image
“The arrow shot by the archer may or may not kill a single person. But stratagems devised by a wise man can… — Robert Greene Arrow Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been talking about with my critical writing and my own work is that these movies are seen… — Robert Greene Cinema Copy Share Image
Understand: as children and young adults, we are taught to conform to certain codes of behavior and ways of doing things. We… — Robert Greene Behavior Copy Share Image
“(The word “genius” comes from the Latin, and originally referred to a guardian spirit that watched over the birth of each person;… — Robert Greene Genius Copy Share Image
Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste… — Robert Greene Breaths 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 Business Copy Share Image
I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because… — Robert Greene Behavior Copy Share Image
Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It… — Robert Greene Appearing Copy Share Image
What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence.… — Robert Greene Animal intelligence Copy Share Image
A lot of people in college go astray because they choose something that doesn't really, really connect to them. And if it… — Robert Greene Able Copy Share Image
I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in… — Robert Greene Book Copy Share Image
I really do think you shoot for that beautiful experience of showing your movie in a crowd or room full of people,… — Robert Greene Beautiful Copy Share Image
“12--Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead.… — Robert Greene Motivational Copy Share Image
