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 GREENEThe 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.
More Robert Greene Quotes
-
-
Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
ROBERT GREENE -
I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.
ROBERT GREENE -
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
ROBERT GREENE -
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
ROBERT GREENE -
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
ROBERT GREENE -
Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
ROBERT 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.
ROBERT GREENE -
Nothing is given to you.
ROBERT GREENE -
Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
ROBERT GREENE -
We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
ROBERT GREENE -
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
ROBERT GREENE -
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
ROBERT GREENE -
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
ROBERT GREENE -
Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
ROBERT 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 GREENE