To seek understanding before taking acti... | Steven Brust

Trust

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.

- Steven Brust

Quote of the Day

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

- Anita Diament

Other quotes by Steven Brust

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.

- Steven Brust

Action Freedom Sense

But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.

- Steven Brust

Ambition Waiting Man

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

- Steven Brust

People

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

- Steven Brust

Obvious Will

Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.

- Steven Brust

Road

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

- Steven Brust

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

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End Trust

Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, 'Don't trust in Guided By Voices.' You were there; was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but they're not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad?

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Trust

I trust no one, not even myself.

- Joseph Stalin

Want Trust

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

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Today Trust

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

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Trust

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.

- Mary Schmich