The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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About Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold ( boo-ZHOHLD; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Bujold is best known for her Vorkosigan Saga, a series of science fiction novels...

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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste… years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just… take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

—Peter Ustinov

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

—Thomas Hardy

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.

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