You should try not to talk so much... - Brandon Sanderson - Quotes.Pub

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way. - Breeze

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You are not worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.

So if Cobb wanted me to turn, I’d turn. I’d turn until my fingers bled – until I rubbed the flesh from my hands and withered away to a skeleton. A skeleton who could turn really, really well.

Janala is a fool, just bright enough to be proud of the wits she has, but stupid enough to be unaware of how outmatched they are.

Set your sights on something higher. Something more grand.

That was the strangest thing that had happened to me since starting flight school, and I spent my mornings talking to a slug.

Blushweaver sighed. “You avoid thinking, you avoid me, you avoid effort... is there anything you don’t avoid?” “Breakfast.

If anyone would be able to go about intimidating forces of nature, it would be you.

The storm catches everyone, eventually. Does it matter?

You could not arrive at excellence by the average of these people. Excellence was an individual quest, not a group effort.

Jasnah preferred to work alone, which was odd, considering how good she was at getting people to do what she wanted. Navani liked groups – but of course, Navani wasn’t a scholar. Oh, she knew how to pretend. But all she really did was nudge here and there, perhaps provide an idea. Others did all the real engineering.

He felt a swelling of pride. Ridiculous, of course. He had endangered the kindgdom – how would people react if they knew the Blackthorn himself had broken before a crisis of conscience? They’d laugh. In that moment, he didn’t care. So long as he could be a hero to this woman.

Oh, child. The world is monstrous at times, and there are those who would have you believe that you are terrible by association.” “I am.” “No. For you see, it flows the other direction. You are not worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.

Life as a human being is about posturing and influence.

So, you’re worried about what?” M-Bot said. “That your shadow might take your place?” “No,” I whispered. “I worry that I’m already the shadow.

Alcatraz actually knows a person named Brandon Sanderson. That man, however, is a fantasy writer and is therefore prone to useless bouts of delusion in literary form.

It had been like discovering that Santa Claus was secretly a Nazi.

A man is what he has a passion about,” Breeze said. ‘I’ve found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you’ll just end up miserable.

Does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take?

Nobody will think I’m weird, and I won’t get into trouble for fighting because my job will be fighting. They won’t call me names, and everyone will love me.

It’s worse when they think they’re your friend. Gawx, the viziers. They make assumptions. They think they know you, then start to expect things of you. Then you have to be the person everyone thinks you are, not the person you actually are.

Humans have free will. Free will is the ability to make irrational decisions.

Oh,” Obliteration continued, “I think that you’ll find a man can do many things thought impossible, if he tries hard enough.

I am depending upon you to preserve us in power by means of this art we so freely call an abomination. Our hunger for power outweighs our conscience.

Elantris was the one place where she could remember feeling unconditional acceptance. She had not been a princess, she had been something far better – a member of a community where every individual was vital.

You want to change the world, Shallan. That’s well and good. But be careful. The world predates you. She has seniority.

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