black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

Robert Greene

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
Win through your actions, never through argument.
ROBERT GREENE

Action Argument Win
For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
ROBERT GREENE

Aware Day Future Yourself
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
ROBERT GREENE

Battle Beyond Calculation Focus Goal Present Reach Strategy Yourself
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.
ROBERT GREENE

Commitment Fools Independence Maintain Master People Play Pursue Rush Side Yourself
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
ROBERT GREENE

Combination Future Learning Skills
Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
ROBERT GREENE

Production Serious Thinking Work
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
ROBERT GREENE

Break Expectation Feeling Moments People Yourself
I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.
ROBERT GREENE

Hurt Myself People
You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
ROBERT GREENE

Development Transformation World Worth Yourself
Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
ROBERT GREENE

Confidence Creation Dynamic Fear Fulfill Translation
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
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

Creation Position Thinking Worry Yourself
If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
ROBERT GREENE

Drive Enough Hard Life Yourself
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

Comfortable Life Myself Personal Society
Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
ROBERT GREENE

Close Enemy Friendship Power Stability Transformation
There’s no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
ROBERT GREENE

Blame People Try World
The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
ROBERT GREENE

Alone Human Problem Room Time
No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
ROBERT GREENE

Attention Experience Learning Lesson Moments Pay Wasted Time Yourself
Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.
ROBERT GREENE

Deep Desire Follow Master Question Yourself
We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
ROBERT GREENE

Action Creation Death Ourselves World
Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
ROBERT GREENE

Brutal Philosophy Respect Yourself
Become who you are by learning who you are.
ROBERT GREENE

Discover Learning Yourself
The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
ROBERT GREENE

Acceptance Life Role World Yourself
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
ROBERT GREENE

Fear Himself Kind Person Side Understand
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
Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
ROBERT GREENE

Better Effort Greatness Level People Superior

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Robert Greene Quotes