Robert Greene may refer to:
If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox way, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find away to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.
It looks like I had the most irrelevant education than anybody in the planet could have.
Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.
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.
I am impressed when I go on the internet and see a lot of young people who've been influenced by the books, or I meet someone who tells me how it has changed their life. To me, that is much more real than sales figures.
In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.
The idea of social performance, that we're always performing identities, is something I got fairly obsessed with. I think it's probably because I am a person who went to 15 different elementary and middle schools. I moved all the time, often having to run out in the middle of the night because my mom couldn't pay the bills. There were schools where I'd be the poor loser kid. There were schools where I'd suddenly be the smart kid or the cool kid, although that was very seldom.
A few years ago, for my birthday, Sean Price Williams said, "I'll give you one free day of shooting. " He shot Kati with an I and co-shot Fake It So Real. While we've always worked together, I didn't want him to do it for free, so he cashed in his birthday chip and came for this one day.
I think the homeless thing is very interesting and I think is an incredible exercise.
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert. "
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.
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.
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.
To a large extent, the political walls are crumbling.
Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be conspicuous, at all cost. Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful, more mysterious than the bland and timid masses.
Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.