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Steven Brust
8 quotes
“It isn't always easy to act on what's in your head instead of what's in your heart. And it isn't always right to. The whole trick to knowing what to do is deciding when to make yourself listen to your head, and when it's okay to just follow your feelings.”
Steven Brust (born 1955) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Athyra (1993) (goodreads)
“Still, all this time, I was only barely aware that my subconscious was putting together a layout of the house. It wasn't that I expected to need one, it's just how my mind works. I am, quite frankly, very good at it, and maybe that's where the real pleasure comes in — just the joy of doing something you do well. There are worse reasons for doing things; maybe there aren't any better ones.”
Steven Brust (born 1955) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kiera the Thief, in Orca (1996), Ch. 9
“When there's nothing you can do except worry, that's a good time to worry.”
Steven Brust (born 1955) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kiera the Thief, in Orca (1996), Ch. 14
“I will always hold to those principles by which I have been raised… To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity… To hold myself to higher standards of conduct than I hold another. To never strike without cause, and, when there is cause, to strike for the heart...”
Steven Brust (born 1955) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paths of the Dead (2002)
“A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.”
Steven Brust (born 1955) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Iorich (2010), p. 172
“Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.”
Steven Brust (born 1955) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tiassa ( 2011) (goodreads)
“A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.”
Steven Brust (born 1955) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Paths of the Dead: Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha (2003) https://vtmolo.com/quotes-about-ambition/ (vtmolo)]
“Stalin is the perfect example of what I was talking about. To simply call him corrupt tells us nothing useful. What circumstances put him into power? What objective pressures, as well as subjective characteristics, led him to make the decisions he made? I'm currently reading Trotsky's writings from 1932 (scary how accurately he predicts the way WWII would play out), and analyzing the details of why Stalin did as he did is far more complex and useful than just, 'power corrupts'. And it is even more true for the other great dictators of the 20th Century: I don’t think you can even say that Hitler and Mussolini were corrupt: they came to power in order to do the very things they did.”
Steven Brust (born 1955) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Truisms rot brains; absolute truisms rot brains absolutely" (9 August 2010)