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
determination fate thinking
When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.
mistake taken thinking
The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don't think that the old saw about 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible.
destiny thinking support
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.
real thinking numbers
What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.
princess men thinking
Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.
fighting men thinking
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 an invisible cage.
thinking would-be easy
I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.
thinking speak diplomacy
Often I must Speak otherwise than I Think. This is Called Diplomacy.
thinking secret answers
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.
thinking perfect you-think-you-know
When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.
stress thinking training
The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.
thinking judgement risk
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.
persistence simple thinking
I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.
father thinking profound
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.