black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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 that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.

Robert Greene

We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
ROBERT GREENE

Action Creation Death Ourselves World
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
ROBERT GREENE

Emotion Engagement Ourselves See Trouble
Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.
ROBERT GREENE

Distance Fight Life Morality Myself Passive Power Right Struggle
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
ROBERT GREENE

Consumption Creativity Fact Goal Happiness Limitation
Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
ROBERT GREENE

Disguise Fake Honesty Quality Remember Weapon
Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
ROBERT GREENE

Mindset Pay Peace Price Value Wasted Time
Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
ROBERT GREENE

Animal Bold Dangerous Small
If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
ROBERT GREENE

Enemy Way Yourself
The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
ROBERT GREENE

Character Creativity Emotion Level Mindset Ourselves Truth
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
ROBERT GREENE

Education Failure Mistake Yourself
Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.
ROBERT GREENE

Creativity Life Positive Rule Therapy World
All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
ROBERT GREENE

Innovation Money Motivational People Success True
The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.
ROBERT GREENE

Complain Human Money Obsession Worst Worth Yourself
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
ROBERT GREENE

Climb Failure Fall Rush
I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.
ROBERT GREENE

Bad Believe Blessing Fact Myself Reason
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
ROBERT GREENE

Competition Friendship Skill Work

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 that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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 that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Robert Greene Quotes