Lois McMaster Quotes
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No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
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If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
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This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely." "I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.
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It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.
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I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
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Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.
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I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.
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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.
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Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.