I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing and directing reality, rather than creating scenarios.

Robert Greene

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Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.

unjust revenge may

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

no-respect philosophy past

Nobody is born without fear. We are all born into this world screaming and crying, a bloody mess. We're afraid of failing. What differentiates people is that some of them tend to deal more with fearful situations and understand that it's hurting them in life. That by becoming fearful they're maiming themselves and they learn to move past these fears.

hurt past moving

For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert." by Robert Greene

For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert."

motto future

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

creating information mind

Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

gossip crafts artist

No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact... by Robert Greene

No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

odds giving facts

Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s. by Robert Greene

Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s.

hips hip-hop hops

Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.

battle war past

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.

black culture kids

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent... by Robert Greene

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power

games civilization art

Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.

purple flower wind

Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality.

emotional should-have reality

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we hav... by Robert Greene

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

serious prison thinking

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of o... by Robert Greene

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

intensity mastery focus

There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more... by Robert Greene

There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.

dangerous victory

I was working on other things and I wanted to make a film, and I had some ideas brewing in my head. Brandy's [ Burre] circumstance was such that I didn't really know what was going to happen. That was obviously a surprise, but I knew she was in her mid-to-late thirties and she was starting to really think about her life in a way that really appealed to me, appealed to the women that I know in my life.

way ideas thinking

Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason, but creatures made in the image of supreme being

important reason animal

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.

feelings past moving

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

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

society complicated people