“If you are interested in a form of science or interested in a particular kind of business or whatever - or if you want to be a writer, there's so much information out there, it's almost too much.” IfsWantKindFormToo MuchInformationParticular Author:Robert Greene
“There's no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.” PeopleWorldShouldTryingBlameExcuseBlaming Others Author:Robert Greene
“I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing.” ThinkingKindPersonsActionCausesSportsInterestDramaStrategyCoachesInstanceStrategicStrategic ThinkingThinking Person Author: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.” PeopleWorldKindLittlesIdeasGamesBitsLittle BitStealingNastyNaivePlaying GamesManipulative Author:Robert Greene
“I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.” ThinkingWantKindPersonsEnoughLiteratureLanguageBackgroundsAnalyzing Author:Robert Greene
“It looks like I had the most irrelevant education than anybody in the planet could have.” LooksPlanetsIrrelevant Author:Robert Greene
“I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post feministic colonial film theory" - those kind of majors, yeah, that's probably worse. But I was, you know, classics, Greek and Latin, like what's more irrelevant than dead languages, you know?” KnowsKindFilmLanguageStudyTheoryDegreesMajorsYeahPostsGreekPrizeLatinIrrelevant Author:Robert Greene
“Actually learning ancient Greek was a brilliant practice of mine because you'd sit there and you'd read a sentence and sometimes it would take you a day, an entire day to figure out one sentence. But it really trains you to be analytical, to think in a certain way to try and interpret what something means. So I've been thinking like that my whole life and then I love Machiavelli and I love thinking about politics that way. So it's sort of all that put together and then the good luck to meet a man who is sort of interested in the same thing.” ThinkingMenWayTryingMeanSometimesWholeTogetherCertainPracticeFiguresMinesLuckTrainAncientSentencesBrilliantWhole LifeGreekGood LuckAncient GreekOne Sentence Author:Robert Greene
“I've always been intrigued by fighter pilots and strategy because it occurs in like, milliseconds, you know.” KnowsStrategyFighterPilotsIntriguedFighter Pilot Author:Robert Greene
“The pyramid would start at the bottom: you don't know who you are or what you're intended to do in life. And so, the X factor - the ingredient that will make you powerful, that will make you successful is your energy and drive and your tenacity. If you've got that, there's nothing in the world that's going to stop you.” IfsKnowsWorldEnergyPowerfulSuccessfulWho You AreBottomFactorsIngredientsTenacityPyramids Author:Robert Greene