The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
ROBERT GREENENothing is given to you.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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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.
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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.
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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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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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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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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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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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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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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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.
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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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