782 Quotes by Robert Greene

Be like vapor. Do not give your opponents anything solid to attack; watch as they exhaust themselves pursuing you, trying to cope with your elusiveness. Only formlessness allows you to truly surprise your enemies – by the time they figure out where you are and what you are up to, it is too late.

Learn to question yourself: Why this anger or resentment? Where does this incessant need for attention come from? Under such scrutiny, your emotions will lose their hold on you. You will begin to think for yourself instead of reacting to what others give you.

The secret enemy, though, will react with anger. Any strong emotion and you will know that there’s something boiling under the surface. Often the best way to get people to reveal themselves is to provoke tension and argument.

Making a show of one’s weakness is actually a very effective strategy, subtle and deceptive, in the game of power.

If you allow yourself to learn who you really are by paying attention to that voice and force within you, then you can become what you were fated to become – an individual, a Master.

Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; and if it is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach. – MARCUS AURELIUS.

Emotions cloud reason, and if you cannot see the situation clearly, you cannot prepare for and respond to it with any degree of control. Anger.

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