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Robert Greene
Age: 34 †
Born: 1558
Born: July 11
Died: 1592
Died: September 3
Playwright
Poet
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Norwich
Norfolk
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Adversity
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A mind content both crown and kingdom is.
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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I have the point that everybody essentially have these unique set of DNA you have. There's something different about you genetically. You are unique is what I am trying to say - the combination of experiences and emotions you have felt are never repeated.
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I want my movies to play in movie theaters. While festivals can fulfill a part of that, there's nothing like getting a week-long run for your movie. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get that.
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
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I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of the most interesting disciplines.
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I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.
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I hate the way war is seen as something inherently brutal and ugly. Yes, much of war brings out the worst part of our [people's] nature. But in war, all kinds of noble human traits have been developed, such as discipline, cohesion, pride.
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The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.
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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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The information walls are completely crumbling.
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I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.
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The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.
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The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific.
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Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you're not creative with and you're not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.
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The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if they just succumbed to it. There's this love/hate relationship with the spotlight.
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Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my kneeWhen thou art old there's grief enough for thee.
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It's okay to be lost in college.
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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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