Marie Brennan Quotes

I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.

Marie Brennan

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• I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Execution

• The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • Real
  • History

• The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • History
  • Education

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • History
  • Me
  • Matter

• Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Study
  • Create
  • Often

• If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Home
  • History
  • Deep

• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • High
  • Think

• When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Different
  • Success
  • Study

• I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Believe
  • History
  • Knowledge

• The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.

  

  Hans Adolf Krebs
  • Character
  • Energy
  • Knowledge

• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • American
  • History

• Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Study

• If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.

  

  Raekwon
  • History
  • Man
  • Challenge

• The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • History
  • Realization

• Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • History
  • Hope

• Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Study
  • Teach
  • Gender

• Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected.

  

  George C. Wolfe

• This is a stepping stone for the big picture. It's going to ease (expectations) and I'm going to learn from today. I learned from Jim, watching him play. It's a step in the right direction.

  

  Aaron Baddeley
  • Learn
  • Expectations
  • Direction

• If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.

  

  William Chillingworth
  • Humans
  • Goodness
  • Endeavour

• We need to have people who are talking about, 'Here's exactly what I would do differently.' That's what's important as we go vote.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • People
  • Important

• I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.

  

  Marie Brennan
  • History
  • Study