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 GreeneNo one's really taking it seriously enough, being more kind of careful and cautious in planning your life out and trying to reach a goal. It takes a great deal of effort - and this cannot be taught.
Robert GreeneIt looks like I had the most irrelevant education than anybody in the planet could have.
Robert GreeneIf you want to be powerful in life you have to enjoy the process. You have to get pleasure out of making the thing that you're making. There has to be that kind of purpose behind it. If your purpose is simply gaining power, if that becomes your end in life then you end up sort of destroying yourself because you lose the sense of detachment that's very necessary.
Robert Greene