Robert Greene Quotations

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

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

There are enough things changing that if you have something that works, you stay with it. For a standard infrastructure server, there just isn't that great a demand on the processor.

I can't even let my kid outside, not to even play in the snow. I can't leave him unattended knowing someone like that is around. I don't even want to take a chance of putting my kid in that situation.

I also have a lot of questions on the academic side about the four-day week, ... Only if we are in some kind of catastrophic situation can I see going with that. Right now, I don't think that is the thing for us to do.

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

I think it would make a big difference.

The athletes said they were not prepared to come back to the village.

While the citizens have a vested interest in the city following up on this, the citizens have other, greater interests.

Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;/ When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. / Mother's wag, pretty boy, / Father's sorrow, father's joy.

Who wouldn't want to be here? It's a great location. There's so much foot traffic.

We have to be very careful about stereotyping. This doesn't mean that these youngsters'

We don't want them to become the tobacco Nazis, chasing people down, ... But we can see some common courtesy being used. And the issue can be revisited later if needed.

The United States government is hated universally. But the average American person is not. This distinction is being made not because these countries are interested in cooperation but because of the needs of people.

It would not be practical for us to look at a four-day week. The school districts looking at that have much longer bus routes.

The smaller companies are riding the coattails of the larger companies. Historically, if Intel did well, it spoke well for all the semiconductor stocks. This earnings season, there's a very high chance that the coattail effect is going to be broken.

The smaller companies are riding the coattails of the larger companies, ... Historically, if Intel did well, it spoke well for all the semiconductor stocks. This earnings season, there's a very high chance that the coattail effect is going to be broken.

So we'll have to cinch in our belts somewhere, ... but we should be able to handle it.

Once you purchase it, you're building equity. You're not just handing money to a rental guy.

They said, 'Look, we don't want to come back. We're going to try and stay in this country'.

It makes me furious. That somebody would do a child that way. It just makes me furious. I think they should throw the book at him, or whatever you know.

It will be enforced by adult staff members,

I'm not concerned about taking the tax off of (gas). I think they need to put a cap on (the price).

Certainly, this is going to be as good as anything that you could find in Atlantic City.

If country loves such sweet desires gain, / What lady would not love a shepherd swain?

The greater challenge, however, is to meet the target of approximately 3,000 workers when the project peaks next year. We are working feverishly towards that.

Jay-Z is more naturally gifted. He didn't depend as much as 50 did on his personal story. Jay-Z has a great story, he came from a pretty rough background. But 50's early success was so much fueled on the story and where he came from. With Jay-Z, I feel he has a more natural gift for language and for music itself. 50 really had to study and work at it much harder.

50 is a great person. I was a little intimidated when I met him for the first time in 2006. I didn't know what to expect. It ended up we got along really well. That's why we decided to do a book together, The 50th Law of Power.

You have the power to think differently about who you are. You have the ability to turn off the critical voice inside of you. That's not you. That's coming from the culture. That's coming from the outside of you. You've internalized the voice of your parents, your teachers, your friends.

If you are armed with knowledge, if you are aware that certain dynamics are at play then you have options. You can play defense, you can ignore certain person and take the consequences perhaps with a game plan in mind and it goes on, you've increased your options.

A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very passive aggressive or they can be aggressive and they can conceal their intentions. There's this world that exists that nobody writes about or describes it's like a dirty little secret or taboo.

We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.

If you're consumed only with the big dream, you're going to die because you won't be able to feed yourself or you're going to be losing your job, so you'll just be sitting in your room dreaming, but if you're only holding onto the crap jobs that keep you just above of the water you're going to be unhappy. You're going to be burnt out, washed out.

You can never get rid of all of your fears. Some are necessary and a part of life. But most of our fears are illusory, based on risks or threats that exist only in our minds. Such fears constrain and make you miserable. The feeling of moving past a particular fear is one of liberation and freedom.

Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that people operated by, but history is full of many, many people who have gotten power by very unethical means, and people who were very ethical, who get no power, people who have the most brilliant, lovely, wonderful, nice intentions and bring about horrible things in the world because they don't know how to play the power game.

You could have a lot of money at your fingertips, the finest education and intellectual knowledge, but if you are governed by fear none of that will matter. You will remain tied to dead ideas and stale strategies. You will not be able to adapt. You will lose what you have.

People want to feel united, they want to have that religious sense they want to feel like at a rave 10,000 people at the rave are feeling the same emotions, a very primal need that's not being fulfilled in the world today.

Most people are passive aggressive in this world. I have the idea that the human being is born with a kind of reservoir of aggression. We are inherently somewhat aggressive creatures and we either channel that in direct ways or we channel it in indirect ways and become passive aggressive.

There is a tremendous problem in modern culture. We have become used to everything coming to us with tremendous speed and ease. It is a culture where discipline and patience is almost impossible to develop.

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.

As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things. Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and that's it.

I believe that everybody was born with a kind of uniqueness. There is never going to be somebody else with the same DNA as you, with the same experiences. There is something that you were meant to do as an individual. You have some kind of creative skill. It can either be creating your own business in some level, being a writer, an artist, whatever, or it can even be working within a company, but from within that company you're creating something.

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.

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

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

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And these misconceptions and naïveté are brutally exposed in the light of the real world.

If you're in your early twenties, don't put so much importance on the money, on the raise. Getting an extra thousand dollars a year is okay, but the real thing is the responsibility and the power and the experience that you're learning.

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

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

What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.

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

Real action and true helpfulness are perhaps the ultimate charm.

Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.

When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.

Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.

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

Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to atack

When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion is to get the other person to think about you or your product without you forcing yourself upon them or without you making them think about you.

A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

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

Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

No greater mischief could be wrought Than love united to a jealous thought.

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

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

If you're in a subordinate position of some sort and pretty much all of us are at some point in our lives, your general tendency is to try and impress the people above you or person above you so well that they will like you, keep you or maybe promote you. In the process of doing that you are not aware that that person above has insecurities and if you try so hard they may see that you are after their job or that you are better than they are or they might envy the fact you are younger.

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

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.

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.

I hate the way war is seen as something inherently brutal and ugly. Yes, much of war brings out the worst part of our [people's] nature. But in war, all kinds of noble human traits have been developed, such as discipline, cohesion, pride.

The human tongue is a beast that few can master.

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.

Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He would be coy, and would not love at all; Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought, Than love united to a jealous thought.

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

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.

Deceiving world, that with alluring toysHast made my life the subject of thy scorn,And scornest now to lend thy fading joys,T'outlength my life, whom friends have left forlorn;How well are they that die ere they be born,And never see thy sleights, which few men shunTill unawares they helpless are undone!

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.

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

Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.

Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head.

You can't disengage yourself from that game if you are completely unaware of what people out there might be doing, you're just going to be tripped up, you're going to find yourself continually at a disadvantage.

The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history-the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen

The problem is that we humans are deep conformists.

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated

A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

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

To succeed in the game of power, you have to master your emotions. But even if you succeed in gaining such self-control, you can never control the temperamental dispositions of those around you. And this presents a great danger.

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

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.

Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time.

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces

When you understand the fear then you can begin to move past it. So when I hear the people say it's innate, you can't learn it, I just want to hit them in the head.

Always say less than necessary.

Be relentless in your pursuit for expansion.

Practically every profession has a really political environment. I think the world has become more competitive. There are so many people in every place competing for small slices of success and power. It's a heated atmosphere and whenever you have competition, you're going to have more politics and manipulation.