Nick Loredo

“Image: An Oak Tree. The oak that resists the wind loses its branches one by one, and with nothing left to protect it, the trunk fi nally snaps. The oak that bends lives long er, its trunk grow ing wider, its roots deeper and more tenacious.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them -- those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can never focus enough to learn.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery