What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
ROBERT GREENEThe future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
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You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
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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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I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.
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Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
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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.
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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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.
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The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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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.
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