A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors.
Никога не подценявайте силата на самозаблуждението да филтрира това, което очите виждат и ушите чуват.Случаят Абнет, Секретни досиета на БюСаб
It occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even
When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of...
What a dolt my father sends me for weaponry, Paul intoned. This doltish Gurney Halleck has forgotten the first lesson for a fighting man armed and shielded. Paul snapped the force button at his waist,...
We are the people of Misr, the old woman rasped. Since our Sunni ancestors fled from Nilotic al-Ourouba, we have known flight and death. The young go on that our people shall not die.
Time can also be a place, Moneo, Leto said. Everything depends upon where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.
There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him, yet he accepted the treachery. Can you say he did this out of a sense o...
The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. I already know the important things!we sa...
The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change.
The omnipresent enemy was the —that total absence of the things to support life that emptiness called space. It was evil and they feared it—constantly. A rod and staff might comfort in the presence of...
She used these moments as she used all such time now to gird herself for the coming necessities. Time pressed; a special calendar drove her. She had looked at a calendar before leaving Chapter House,...
Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and practitioners. There has never been any clear balan...
Privilege becomes arrogance. Arrogance promotes injustice. The seeds of ruin blossom.
Postoje stvari koje riječi ne mogu objasniti. Moraš ih doživjeti bez riječi.
Paul sat silently in the darkness, a single stark thought dominating his awareness: My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She...
Oholi podižu bedeme oko sebe iza kojih pokušavaju sakriti svoje sumnje i strahove.
My family sat in their pool courtyard, Harah said, in air bathed by the moisture that arose from the spray of a fountain. There was a tree of portyguls, round and deep in color, near at hand. There wa...
Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without ac...
Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they...