Robert Greene Quotes

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.

An ecosystem that has the maximum amount of diversity is the richest.

If you have millions and millions of dollars, you're living in a totally different world. You don't feel it anymore and you've got to feel it.

My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.

Never be put off by your target's anger; it is a sure sign of enslavement.

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms.

Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

One can never expect critics to behave in any predictable way.

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

I'm a big believer in being an entrepreneur. It's easy for me to say because I work for myself and I am someone who likes that process. You have control over your destiny.

My goal for Actress is to have it play more traditional theaters.

I want my movies to play in movie theaters. While festivals can fulfill a part of that, there's nothing like getting a week-long run for your movie. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get that.

You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment.

Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time.

A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.

Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.

Here in Beacon, I feel like this was the worst year yet. The entire town, like a lot of winter towns, just kind of holed up in the winter.

For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert.

Hesitation creates gaps. Boldness obliterates them.

12--Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand StrategyGrand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...

...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.

Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into.

Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions.

Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?

It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous.

How can we explain such inclinations? They are forces within us that come from a deeper place than conscious words can express.They draw us to certain experiences and away from others.

Though men determine the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.