If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.
ROBERT GREENE
ROBERT GREENE
Robert Greene on creation
Robert Greene59 quotes“If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.”
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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Robert GreeneRobert Greene It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
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Robert GreeneRobert Greene Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
Robert GreeneRobert Greene Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
Robert GreeneRobert Greene I just know who I am and what’s comfortable for me and I don’t personally do things in life because others do it or because that’s what society tells me I should do.
Robert GreeneRobert Greene If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
Robert GreeneRobert Greene Become who you are by learning who you are.
Robert GreeneRobert Greene Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
Robert GreeneRobert Greene Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
Robert GreeneRobert Greene Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you’re not creative with and you’re not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.
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In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.
Thomas PaineThomas Paine False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I’ve come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in the long run.
Kriti SanonKriti Sanon The experience of our life is gets created here not there.
BK ShivaniBK Shivani When you are infinitely indebted for your body, for Knowledge, for things you have received, and for your own life, then you bask in the abundance of the Creator
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar People will support that which they help to create.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash When you are infinitely indebted for your body, for Knowledge, for things you have received, and for your own life, then you bask in the abundance of the Creator
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
Orson WellesOrson Welles As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
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