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The vast majority of people conform to whatever is normal for the time.

Social Conformity, Group Norms, Social Pressure, Obedience, Trends, Behavior

The vast majority of people conform to whatever is normal

The vast majority of people conform to whatever is normal

The vast majority of people conform to whatever is normal

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More Robert Greene Quotes

“Great strategists do not act according to preconceived ideas; they respond to the moment, like children. Their minds are always moving, and they are always excited and curious. They quickly forget the past – the present is much too interesting.”

Strategic Thinking, Present Focus, Adaptable Minds, Strategy, Focus, Adaptation

“Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.”

Creative Balance, Discipline Spirit, Innovative Energy, Creativity, Discipline, Energy

“Too much attention early on will actually just suggest insecurity, and raise doubts as to your motives. Worst of all, it gives your targets no room for imagination. Take a step back; let the thoughts you are provoking come to them as if they were their own. This is doubly important if you are dealing with someone who has a deep effect on you.”

Strategic Patience, Early Insecurity, Imaginative Freedom, Patience, Insecurity, Freedom

“Ah! what is love! It is a pretty thing, as sweet unto a shepherd as a king, and sweeter too; for kings have cares that wait upon a crown, and cares can make the sweetest love to frown.”

Love Strategy, Emotional Clarity, Personal Mindset, Leadership Understanding, Romantic Influence, Emotional Success

“Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.”

Mastery Mindset, Personal Strategy, Success Discipline, Learning Clarity, Growth Understanding, Leadership Persistence

“The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents – will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?”

Mental Challenge, Pain Focus, Distraction Avoidance, Pain, Focus, Challenge

“With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.”

Workplace Envy, Manipulative Behaviors, Assumptions, Influence, Strategy, Perception

“Napoleon advised: Place your iron hand inside a velvet glove.”

Velvet Glove, Power Strategy, Gentle Authority, Strength, Diplomacy, Tact

“Understand: we can never really experience what other people are experiencing. We always remain on the outside looking in, and this is the cause of so many misunderstandings and conflicts.”

Empathy Limits, Misunderstanding Causes, Conflict Awareness, Empathy, Conflict, Awareness

“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.”

Decision-making Clarity, Leadership Mistakes, Strategy Insight, Emotional Influence, Risk Awareness, Leadership Strategy

“Too much respect for other people’s wisdom will make you depreciate your own.”

Self-awareness Strategy, Leadership Confidence, Decision-making Clarity, Personal Strategy, Wisdom Balance, Independence

“The most important of these skills, and power’s crucial foundation, is the ability to master your emotions. An emotional response to a situation is the single greatest barrier to power, a mistake that will cost you a lot more than any temporary satisfaction you might gain by expressing your feelings. Emotions cloud reason, and if you cannot see the situation clearly, you cannot prepare for and respond to it with any degree of control.”

Emotional Mastery, Power Foundation, Reason Clarity, Emotions, Mastery, Control

“Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.”

Leadership Independence, Strategy Authenticity, Personal Confidence, Unique Strategy, Social Awareness, Identity Clarity

“If you are observing someone you naturally dislike, or who reminds you of someone unpleasant in your past, you will tend to see almost any cue as unfriendly or hostile. You will do the opposite for people you like. In these exercises you must strive to subtract your personal preferences and prejudices about people.”

Unbiased Observation, Personal Preferences, Prejudice Reduction, Observation, Bias, Prejudice

“Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger.”

Spiritual Connection, Existential Balm, Larger Perspective, Religion, Existence, Connection

“For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.””

Leadership Discipline, Strategic Awareness, Mental Focus, Proactivity Mindset, Leadership Success, Daily Alertness

“You cannot hit two targets with one arrow. If your thoughts stray, you miss your enemies’ heart. Mind and arrow must become one.”

Focused Strategy, Single Target, Precision Approach, Discipline, Clarity, Control

“Emotions cloud reason, and if you cannot see the situation clearly, you cannot prepare for and respond to it with any degree of control.”

Emotional Clarity, Reason Preparation, Situation Control, Emotions, Clarity, Reason

“The problem in trying to prove a point or gain a victory through argument is that in the end you can never be certain how it affects the people you’re arguing with: They may appear to agree with you politely, but inside they may resent you.”

Strategic Humility, Argument Avoidance, Focus On Action, Understanding Motives, Strategy, Control

“Goethe epitomizes what was known in the Renaissance as the Ideal of the Universal Man – a person so steeped in all forms of knowledge that his mind grows closer to the reality of nature itself and sees secrets that are invisible to most people.”

Universal Knowledge, Intellectual Growth, Renaissance Ideals, Goethe, Nature, Secrets