Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are

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[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall

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Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me

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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say