Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power Robert Greene More Quotes by Robert Greene More Quotes From Robert Greene The point of the adversity is to toughen your mind so that you can handle difficult circumstances in life. Your mind, toughen just like you toughen your body. So it really depends on what you need. It really depends on the individual. Robert Greene adversitymindneeds One could draw up all different kinds of adversity depending on what your weakness is. Robert Greene adversityweaknessdifferent The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality. Robert Greene intenserealfacts Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power. Robert Greene keyspowerart Always say less than necessary. Robert Greene As most people when I entered the work world, suddenly people are playing games, being manipulative, being a little bit nasty, you get tricked or you're kind of naive and you do something and people come steal your idea. Robert Greene gamespeopleideas Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood Robert Greene venussinblood 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. Robert Greene despairheavenworld 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. Robert Greene realbookpeople Be relentless in your pursuit for expansion. Robert Greene relentlesspursuitexpansion 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. Robert Greene spacejobsthinking Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head. Robert Greene grantedpositionfavors The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human. Robert Greene worsthumanscomplaining 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. Robert Greene lawtogetherbook We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups. Robert Greene groupssocialanimal People go into things for the wrong reasons. Robert Greene wrong-reasonsreasonpeople The problem is that we humans are deep conformists. Robert Greene conformistproblemhumans Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and focus, and they pay for this later in life. Robert Greene envylater-in-lifefocus There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your hands. There's an intelligence with language that would lead someone into writing. So it's not necessarily that you're six years old and you know you're going to be a lawyer Or you're going into tech startups or computers. It's something more elemental than that. It's that this is a skill, a way of thinking that comes naturally to me that I was drawn to and it was very clear in childhood. Robert Greene mathwritingthinking I don't want to promote paranoia. It's not like wow, everybody is after me. You know that's not going to be very powerful. A person like Stalin was like that and he was powerful, but it ended up completely destroying him because he couldn't trust anyone. Robert Greene wowpowerfulwant
