Quotes by Robert Greene

In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society.

Though men determine the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.

“When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others”

“Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent”

“Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter”

“the source of their success (the various power players in history) could almost always be traced to one single skill or unique quality that separated them form the others.”

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