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 GREENEIf 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.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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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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There’s no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
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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 it, and display it with the care of an artist.
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If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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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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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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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.
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Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
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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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When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity, you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
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