"The conventional mind is passive - it consumes……" — Robert Greene
"The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming."
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108 Quotes by Robert Greene
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Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind…
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The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes…
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People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.
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Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative…
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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and…
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If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your…
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone…
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There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.
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Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are…
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,…
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed…
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the…
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
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As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers…
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our…
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