Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
ROBERT GREENEBoldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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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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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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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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Become who you are by learning who you 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 moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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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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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.
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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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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 world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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