Robert Greene
Robert Greene
Robert Greenewas an English author popular in his day, and now best known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him, Greenes, Groats-worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance, widely believed to contain an attack on William Shakespeare. He is said to have been born in Norwich. He attended Cambridge, receiving a BA in 1580, and an M.A. in 1583 before moving to London, where he arguably became the first professional author in England. Greene was prolific and published...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth11 July 1558
A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.
Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.
No greater mischief could be wrought Than love united to a jealous thought.
In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.
You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.
If you're in a subordinate position of some sort and pretty much all of us are at some point in our lives, your general tendency is to try and impress the people above you or person above you so well that they will like you, keep you or maybe promote you. In the process of doing that you are not aware that that person above has insecurities and if you try so hard they may see that you are after their job or that you are better than they are or they might envy the fact you are younger.
The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.
On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.
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.
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.
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.