Steven Brust Quotes

But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it.

I know I’m doing something wrong and I feel guilty but neither of those things matter enough to make me stop

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.

Life is a do-it-yourself kit, so do it yourself. Work. Practice.

How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, 'Good things aren't supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first.' So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I've always had - how shall I say it? - the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

Passion is never enough; neither is skill.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.

I believe in working harder and putting in the time - being completely obsessed. And, yeah, I think that's life.

Like I said about Seinfeld and Chris Rock, they're a great combination of brilliance and hard work. [But] there are people who are brilliant and don't work hard, and there are people who are brilliant and sabotage themselves.

I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.

Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing .

The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.

I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

If you hang in there long enough, you will eventually reach your goal.

The thing I have to be willing to do is work - I think I'm the one that is going to actually copyright the term "25/8." You ever hear of the term "25/8?" It's the cousin of "24/7." I have to go "25/8."

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

If it felt good, you didn't push hard enough. It's supposed to hurt like hell.

When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.

If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.

Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.