782 Quotes by Robert Greene

Our continual connection to social media makes us prone to new forms of viral emotional effects. These are not media designed for calm reflection. With their constant presence, we have less and less mental space to step back and think.

But I don’t consider history to be a field. It’s just all the stuff that’s happened so far. You have to call it a field so people who study what happened in the past can get a job teaching blank. But it doesn’t seem to me that it’s a subject.

Acted like a king to be treated like one.

Sometimes this fear of speculation masquerades as skepticism. We see this in people who delight in shooting down any theory or explanation before it gets anywhere. They are trying to pass off skepticism as a sign of high intelligence, but in fact they are taking the easy route – it is quite simple to find arguments against any idea and knock it down from the sidelines.

It is estimated that over 65 percent of all human communication is nonverbal but that people pick up and internalize only about 5 percent of this information.

You must be the mirror, training your mind to try to see yourself as others see you.

Instead of wasting time negotiating with every difficult person, work on spreading a spirit of camaraderie and efficiency that becomes self-policing. Streamline the organization, cutting out waste – in staff, in the irrelevant reports on your desk, in pointless meetings.

His mind, he decided, worked best when he had several different projects at hand, allowing him to build all kinds of connections between them.

He who poses as a fool is not a fool.