Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr.was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 October 1920
CityTacoma, WA
CountryUnited States of America
people leader important
What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
enemy worst
We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.
happiness past waste
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
men tasks events
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
taken use victim
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
well-known wells known
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
violence quiet speak
They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.
hands people one-day
I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?
killers rabbits kind
A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.
genius madness method
Madness in method, that's genius
may tasks endure
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.
writing attention ifs
You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.
play problem
The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib
order mind body
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.