Robert Greene Quotes

Always say less than necessary.

Ah, were she pitiful as she is fair,Or but as mild as she is seeming so,Then were my hopes greater than my despair,Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe.

Ah! what is love! It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king, And sweeter too; For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest love to frown.

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy.

I like lecturing and going around the world and giving talks and I like doing consulting and helping people.

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.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

I have examples of people who find their way back later on in life, in their 30's, 40's, it can happen in your 50's, I'm sure it can. It's not really a science. It's maybe more of an art.

Expand your notion of what adversity is.

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces

To me, no matter what we do, we all strive for that experience.

When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying

Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

It looks like I had the most irrelevant education than anybody in the planet could have.

The information walls are completely crumbling.

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.

I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing and directing reality, rather than creating scenarios.

It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.

There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related kind of mind.

People who are reading my books, or who are thinking about it, have some general idea about the concept of strategy. They're better off than somebody that has none. So I would never say it's useless.

If you're only ten feet above, then you're better than when you're on the ground.

I think the homeless thing is very interesting and I think is an incredible exercise.

I have sort of issues with my claustrophobia where being on an airplane or if I force myself, to put myself in these circumstances that I kind of, am afraid of, that can be a way to toughen me up.

If you are interested in a form of science or interested in a particular kind of business or whatever - or if you want to be a writer, there's so much information out there, it's almost too much.

Obviously there's Netflix, iTunes, and Amazon and all these other outlets. Fake It So Real is now on Fandor, and I think people have actually seen it there, which is fine.

I also make movies that can be seen on a small screen, as I shoot on digital video. Hopefully they can be seen small and can live like that.

I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

Compelling spectacles are not to reach a niche market, it could be for reaching a niche marketing but on a grand scale. This is for grand marketing.

Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger

The combination of experiences and emotions you have felt are never repeated.

I really do think you shoot for that beautiful experience of showing your movie in a crowd or room full of people, or even just one person who happens to go to a matinee screening.

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

To a large extent, the political walls are crumbling.

Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.

When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.

I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.

Everybody wants power and control in their life.

The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific.

Your college education is a key moment in life.

I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.

It's fortunately a kind of society we live in where we can be diverse. People can take different paths and not feel like they're doing something wrong.

Everything is personal.

I've always been intrigued by fighter pilots and strategy because it occurs in like, milliseconds, you know.

I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.

I exercise a lot and I love it. I'm fine. But you know, I'd like to be alive in ten years, that'd be my first priority.

It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.

I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money.

I'm probably, if I might, if I stray I might write, go into screenplay or do something in film. Something like that but I think I'm pretty much going to stick to what I'm good at.

The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.