Learn to play with your image, never taking it too seriously. The key is to infuse your play with the conviction and feeling of a child, making it se… - Robert Greene

those who make a show or display of innocence are the least innocent of all.

Not to become someone else, but to be more thoroughly yourself.

Second, many believe that by being honest and open they are winning people’s hearts and showing their good nature. They are greatly deluded. Honesty is actually a blunt instrument, which bloodies more than it cuts. Your honesty is likely to offend people; it is much more prudent to tailor your words, telling people what they want to hear rather than the coarse and ugly truth of what you feel or think. More important, by being unabashedly open you make yourself so predictable and familiar that it is almost impossible to respect or fear you, and power will not accrue to a person who cannot inspire such emotions. If