Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

I find it tricky to make plans.

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain and depends on a future day .. but if you refuse, you alienate people to a certainty and immediately.

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.

I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

Yes, I promised, but did I promise to keep my promise?

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called upon to perform what we cannot.

The general population protect themselves by keeping promises

Saying is one thing and doing is another.

In politics, all you have is your word.

People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they are different.

I have supported a great many who promised to do things that I thought ought to be done, who proved faithless to their promises.

I will make the further pledge now that if I find that I cannot keep my pledges I will resign.

No trusting without testing

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer.

Our government should not make promises we cannot keep. And we must keep the promises we have already made.

I’ll do my best but I can’t promise anything. t

Relying on luck … does not constitute a policy.

Trust is leveling with people before the election about what you're going to do after the election.

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it's important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

I want to make sure that I fulfill the promises that I made to New Mexicans. That's extremely important to me.

At SBI, we say that if you need a project to be done, you need to be determined that it needs to be done, put a deadline, and it will get done.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.