Frank Herbert Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Giving, Mind

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.218, Penguin

• When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Fighting, Men

  Frank Herbert (2012). “Dune: The Gateway Collection”, p.258, Hachette UK

• Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

  Frank Herbert

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Frank Herbert (2010). “Dune”, p.327, Hachette UK

• ... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

  Frank Herbert

  Attitude, People, Giving

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.62, Penguin

• We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

  Frank Herbert

  Giving Up, Moving, Fall

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.103, Penguin

• There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed. ... These things are so ancient within us that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies... It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Cells, Giving

  "Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

• A voice hissed: "He sheds tears!" It was taken around the ring "Usal gives moisture to the dead!" He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers.

  Frank Herbert

  Taken, Voice, Giving

• I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity

  Frank Herbert

  Roots, Giving, Identity

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.35, Penguin

• There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give.

  Frank Herbert

  Book, Giving, Entertainment

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.9, Penguin

• You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

  Frank Herbert

  Funny Love, Giving, Joy

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.272, Penguin

• Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

  Frank Herbert

  Giving, Lamps, Give Me

  Frank Herbert (1984). “Dune Messiah”, Berkley

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