Steven Brust Quotes

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

The world tells lots of people the light is red. You have to trust yourself and say, 'I think the light is green, and I'm going to keep doing this.'

I don't have any sense of inhibition, so I'm able to lead my life with a lot of honesty.

Be yourself. If you're not yourself, who are you? But take advice; listen to people. If you're not listening, you're lost. You're a sheep among wolves.

Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.

I kind of just trust what I do and do what I trust.

So many people compromise everything; you don't have to do that. You see one opportunity and you're scared to turn it down. You don't have to take everything that comes your way and there's always something else on the other side.

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

I'm just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I'm honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day, don't care what people say. I never cared about what people say.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you've made and not something you've made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.