"Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on……" — Robert Sheckley
"Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret."
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Robert Sheckley
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30 Quotes by Robert Sheckley
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Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace…
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I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and…
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Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?
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I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render…
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I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write,…
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Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.
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So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote…
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Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
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I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like…
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I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
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A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy,…
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As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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