Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself โ your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose โ they want to keep you down.
Robert GreeneI'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?
Robert GreeneI have an argument that to master any field, it's simple: it's a function of time. How much you devote yourself to the process, how much experience you get, how much you're willing to expand your limits, how willing you are to develop your own style. If you're willing to put 10,000 hours, something amazing is going to happen.
Robert Greene