Robert Greene
26 quotes.
Quotes by Robert Greene
- Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.
- Don’t get comfortable. Take risks. Change. Try learning about a field you don’t know anything about. Or stepping into a viewpoint you’ve never considered.
- Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.
- Hesitation creates gaps. Boldness obliterates them.
- If you don’t know yourself, you can’t control your own emotions.
- If you have no power over yourself, then you’re at the whim of everything else in this world.
- In difficult moments do not despair or retreat: any situation can be turned around.
- 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.
- Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
- Most people can’t handle boredom. That means they can’t stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they’re unhappy.
- Move toward challenges that will toughen and improve you.
- Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head.
- Once you learn patience, your options suddenly expand.
- Remember that few people are as happy as the image they present. See past their facades and you will appreciate what you have.
- Remember that you have only so much energy and so much time. Every moment wasted on the dramas of others subtracts from your strength.
- The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
- The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
- The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- The very desire to find shortcuts makes you eminently unsuited for any kind of mastery.
- Think of yourself as an explorer. You cannot find anything new if you are unwilling to leave the shore.
- Train yourself to take nothing personally.
- Try the thing you don’t think you’re quite ready for.
- When you get angry, your options narrow.
- Win through your actions, never through argument.
- You are one of a kind. Your combination of skills and experience is not replicable. That represents true freedom and the ultimate power we humans can possess.
- Your Life’s Task is to express your uniqueness through your work.