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Robert Greene
Age: 34 †
Born: 1558
Born: July 11
Died: 1592
Died: September 3
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Norwich
Norfolk
Less
Always
Necessary

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The combination of experiences and emotions you have felt are never repeated.
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I exercise a lot and I love it. I'm fine. But you know, I'd like to be alive in ten years, that'd be my first priority.
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It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
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People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.
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Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
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The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history-the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Everybody wants power and control in their life.
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It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.
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A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can't stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they're constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games.
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Compelling spectacles are not to reach a niche market, it could be for reaching a niche marketing but on a grand scale. This is for grand marketing.
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My goal for Actress is to have it play more traditional theaters.
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It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.
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My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.
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When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion is to get the other person to think about you or your product without you forcing yourself upon them or without you making them think about you.
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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Never be put off by your target's anger it is a sure sign of enslavement.
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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
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Nothing is given to you.
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