W.D. Frank Quotes

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.

The man without emotions is the one to fear.

motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

People stop trying when there’s no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre.

You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

You have some queer friends, Dorothy, ' she said.The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends, ' was the answer

Keeping score, in friendships, is a losing game.

Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do, freely and withthe appropriate sense of space.

Just love everybody!? Do you love everybody, Karma? Could you love Hitler? Answer me that! Could you love Hitler, huh?""I wonder what would have happened if somebody did, Blue?

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

I am free. I am ransomed. I've never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like.

In 1969 I published a small book on Humility. It was a pioneering work which has not, to my knowledge, been superceded.

In 1980 candidate Reagan asked whether we were better off than we had been 4 years earlier. In 1992 we will be asked whether we expect our children to live better than we do.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.

The women of the world will dominate politics, some day, and you mustn't be too old-fashioned in your notions to join the procession of progress.

Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.

It’s your life to live. Own it! You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.

The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science.

Give as few orders as possible, " his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

What counts that we’re not counting?

You send a message by what you say and what you do. If words aren’t supported with consistent actions, they will ring hollow.

When you master the basics, and execute them well, there’s no need to worry about the score.

Courageous people know that saying ‘no’ to one idea enables them to say ‘yes’ to another.

Real leaders focus resources in areas that provide the greatest opportunity rather than making across-the-board decisions.

Fair-minded people earn the respect of their colleagues rather than demanding it.

Courageous people know that old ways of doing things shouldn’t stand in the way of a better solution.

I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him.

My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.

He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.

He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.

There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.

drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within       I am awakerepairing in dirt the frayed immaculate threadforced by being to watch the birth of suns

...that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.

The stratagems by which briefly youameliorated, even seeminglyuntwisted what still twists within you —you loved their taste and lay thereon your sidenursing like a puppy.

Art is the business of selling fetishes, sacred relics once touched by genius: what the forger offers the gullible buyer is not art, it is "authenticity

I never thought it would be easy to serve God, " she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

If you could see my thoughts, you could see our faces.

The more you Learn, The more you earn

Many people are actually poor because the only thing they have is money.

A cold heart is its own worst punishment.

People lose a lot of time being afraid... People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.

First we have to understand that we are not the mind! We are identical with neither its bright, nor its dark side!

Reaching beyond ourselves, exceeding our mind is not a simple thing. It is, in fact, impossible–one half of the Ego is trying to exceed the other.

It is to be recognized that the negative emotions and the guilt that comes with it is not a part of the Consciousness, it only belongs to the mind!

Deceit is a tool of statecraft, " Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover, " Paul said.

On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power, " the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul.

One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.