"Nothing takes the heart out of a man……" — Robin Hobb
"Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure."
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113 Quotes by Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb has 113 quotes on this site.
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I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.
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I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before…
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I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out…
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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
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Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your…
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The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.
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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.
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Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they…
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THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties,…
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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life…
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Expectation is the mother of all frustration.
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People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation…
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If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life…
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'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line…
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There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that…
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to…
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
— Samuel Alexander
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When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the…
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