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Robert Greene Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“Seeing this foolishness within you, you can then accept it in others. This will allow you to smile at their antics, to tolerate their presence as you would a silly child, and to avoid the madness of trying to change them.”
— Robert Greene, Mastery
Tagged: Fool, Human Comedy
“Confidence is important, but if it is not based on a realistic appraisal of who you are, it is mere grandiosity and smugness.”
— Robert Greene, Mastery
Tagged: Confidence, Humble, Self-Confidence
“In dealing with fools you must adopt the following philosophy: they are simply a part of life, like rocks or furniture.”
— Robert Greene, Mastery
Tagged: Fools, How To Deal With Fools, Fools Are Like Rocks
“In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.”
— Robert Greene, Mastery
Tagged: Dedication, Devotion, Passion
“The idea or theory that you are currently formulating, that seems so fresh and alive and truthful, will almost certainly be shot down or ridiculed in a few decades or centuries. And so it is best to keep this in mind and not grow too fond of your ideas or too certain of their truth.”
— Robert Greene, Mastery
Tagged: Exformation, You Know Nothing, My Philosophy, The Vanity of Trends
“The key is to be aware of this process and to encourage yourself to go as far as you can with your doubts, your reworkings, and your strained efforts, knowing the value and purpose of the frustration and creative blocks you are facing.”
— Robert Greene, Mastery
Tagged: Blocks, Doubts
“Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in moments of adversity,precisely the time when you need strength. What best equips you to cope with the heat of battle is neither more knowledge nor more intellect. What makes your mind stronger, and more able to control your emotions, is internal discipline and toughness. No one can teach you this skill; you cannot learn it by reading about it. Like any discipline, it can come only through practice, experience, even a little suffering. The first step in building up presence of mind is to see the need for it, to want it badly enough to be willing to work for it.”
— Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War (Joost Elffers Books)
“Our culture depends in many ways on the creation of standards and conventions that we all must adhere to. These conventions are often expressed in terms of opposites— good and evil, beautiful and ugly, painful and pleasurable, rational and irrational, intellectual and sensual. Believing in these opposites gives our world a sense of cohesion and comfort. To imagine that something can be intellectual and sensual, pleasurable and painful, real and unreal, good and bad, masculine and feminine is too chaotic and disturbing for us. Life, however, is more fluid and complex; our desires and experiences do not fit neatly into these tidy categories.”
— Robert Greene, Mastery
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