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I think that [respect for people] is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do the right thing.
If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow
The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.
The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.
I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.
I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?
Gordie: Do you think I'm weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird
The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.
True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.
Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.
People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.
Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.
You know how it feels when you're in love with somebody and you long to be with that person? God wants us to feel that way about Him.
To believe in God starts with a conclusion about Him, develops into confidence in Him, and then matures into a conversation with Him.
I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale.
I no longer attempt to rationalise inexplicable phenomena; there are explanations, Horatio, but they are likely to be beyond our ken.
On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground.
Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.
It used to be you rose up through the ranks, and by the time you got a job as a boss, you had done the work of everybody beneath you.
Never give up; nothing is done overnight. Anyone who achieved anything in life always did it after many failures. Don’t give up hope.
With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be burned down.
The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot.
Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.
Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.
No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.
The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .
A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
Resenting promotion is one of the greatest obstacles to success. People who have issues with selling and promotion are usually broke.
He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had
Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart Cries.
Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.
How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?
Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week.
By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.
I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for; they tend to run on rails.
It was fascinating listening to this wonderful biologist, Sarah Allen Miller, speak of her relationship to these beings for 20 years.
The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
Real people are made out of a whole lot of things-flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.
A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.
Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.
You can share your testimony in many ways, by the words you speak, by the example you set, by the manner in which you live your life.