FastSaying

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.


Robert Heinlein

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
DEYTH BANGER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We all think of doing something distinctive in life. We all do dream of becoming great and leaving d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Do you love me as the person that I am now, or do you love me as the person I used to be?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Learn, relearn and outlearn.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:

1. Stop stressing
2. Stop worrying
3. Give re...
GERMANY KENT Youll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you dont have to remember what you have ...
SAM RAYBURN The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS If you can dream it, you can do it.
ENZO FERRARI Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON If you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHS It ain't bragging if you can do it.
DIZZY DEAN Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH One day, you muster the courage and let go of the fear. In a brief moment of insanity, you give wing...
K.J. KILTON You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."

"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Success is a Journey: so, don’t forget to pack your COURAGE: to face the obstacles heading your wa...
PHILIP T. M. 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Patience is doing something about the situation and wait for the result of what you did to fix it. B...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER 7 Rules to a Happy Life:

1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
GERMANY KENT You can be all that you want to be.
Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA sing the song and let people do the interpretation. It is your duty to sing the unsung songs and it ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH God walked with humanity in the cool of the day and gave them the most difficult and hottest parts o...
JOEY TALLADINO You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Just do it ! Just don't waste your time learning how to do it !
EPHDAN Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit...
GERMANY KENT What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Be all that you can be.
You can be great.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Youll never know how strong you truly are, until u get under some weight.
EULLYS "JEWELZ" HINNANT III Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they see...
WILL SELF I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them sibling...
MAYA ANGELOU If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
KATE BALDWIN To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, y...
BETTY SMITH Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it.
DEYTH BANGER If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
ARSENE WENGER When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you...
CHRIS PRENTISS Do not let the tears fool you. She lied and cheated once, she will again. Your call to continue with...
TREVON CLARK I don't think man and woman should be compared, You don't compare things that complete one another.
FAITH N. Those who want to hear from you will let you hear from them.
TREVON CLARK Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II Have a robust mindset; dare to move any mountain!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What you do will project you
SOTONYE ANGA To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Decide whether you are living up to your best idea of who you should be—and work on it if you're n...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Let your light shine as an inspiration to humanity and BE THE REASON someone believes in the goodnes...
GERMANY KENT Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an...
CAMILLE SWEENEY You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ...
TEGAN QUIN There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When ...
RICHARD RYBOLT Sometimes it's like: If something terrifies you, you should totally do it BECAUSE it terrifies you. ...
JONATHAN SACCONE-JOLY You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.
JEFFREY FRY Be the Best YOU you can BE because only YOU can do that.
LORRIN L. LEE If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can d...
JAMES ALLEN I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
RICHARD L. EVANS To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.
CRAIG GROESCHEL In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN I cannot continue to live a life I am not born to live! I cannot continue to exert my full strength ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you value your time, You'll get some reasons to smile in return.
MD. NAZRUL ISLAM A weird thing happens when you get a glimpse of that side of you. A child-like zeal possesses you. I...
K.J. KILTON That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset some...
LEWIS BLACK I believe art prefers rules. For some artists, the worst thing you can do is say 'Do whatever you wa...
LISA MANGUM There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.
ZE FRANK It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do a...
MAYA ANGELOU Moving from one activity to another makes sense if you do it with a hint of wit or touch of grace. B...
NORMAN MAILER Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN If I'm going to be honest with you, when I trained at school, I feel like I was training to be a...
RUTINA WESLEY Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD Trust yourself to be able to confront and work through your emotions. If you believe you can’t do ...
SAM OWEN I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA They see it as if they let it do it to one, it could happen to you the next time.
CONNIE KELLIHER If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI [Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their ‘to do’...
JON EDGELL Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
MARK TWAIN

More Robert Heinlein

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
ROBERT HEINLEIN To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as th...
ROBERT HEINLEIN A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
ROBERT HEINLEIN The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Specialization is for insects.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.
ROBERT HEINLEIN If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly c...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
ROBERT HEINLEIN The three-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equippe...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Avoid making irrevocable decisions when tired or hungry.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be e...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
ROBERT HEINLEIN No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
ROBERT HEINLEIN To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the oth...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
ROBERT HEINLEIN In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ...
ROBERT HEINLEIN A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
ROBERT HEINLEIN It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone...
ROBERT HEINLEIN History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a c...
ROBERT HEINLEIN To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the ...
ROBERT HEINLEIN The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
ROBERT HEINLEIN There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a stat...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do somethin...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Thou art God, and I am God and all that groks is God.
ROBERT HEINLEIN A motion to adjourn is always in order.
ROBERT HEINLEIN People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug wh...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afte...
ROBERT HEINLEIN One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence ...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.
ROBERT HEINLEIN A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! Robert A
ROBERT HEINLEIN What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A
ROBERT HEINLEIN But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish ...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert...
ROBERT HEINLEIN History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a c...
ROBERT HEINLEIN It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.
ROBERT HEINLEIN The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
ROBERT HEINLEIN ...brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.
ROBERT HEINLEIN A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual"- find out how he feels about astrolo...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Beauty is not diminished by being shared.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
ROBERT HEINLEIN If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphil...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT HEINLEIN One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
ROBERT HEINLEIN In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is n...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.
ROBERT HEINLEIN A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably ...
ROBERT HEINLEIN To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
ROBERT HEINLEIN The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
ROBERT HEINLEIN The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no...
ROBERT HEINLEIN There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you th...
ROBERT HEINLEIN A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Do steers sign treaties with meat packers? Robert A
ROBERT HEINLEIN I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
ROBERT HEINLEIN How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neurose...
ROBERT HEINLEIN The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
ROBERT HEINLEIN When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
ROBERT HEINLEIN All's fair in love and war-what a contemptible lie! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A
ROBERT HEINLEIN Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A
ROBERT HEINLEIN When one teaches, two learn.
ROBERT HEINLEIN I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts... because it's the only thing that'll ...
ROBERT HEINLEIN If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in re...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't ...
ROBERT HEINLEIN A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, desig...
ROBERT HEINLEIN To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again,...
ROBERT HEINLEIN Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
ROBERT HEINLEIN A poet who reads his own verse in public may have other nasty habits.
ROBERT HEINLEIN There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you lov...
ROBERT HEINLEIN No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
ROBERT HEINLEIN The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant ...
ROBERT HEINLEIN What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A
ROBERT HEINLEIN Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimis...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null wor...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matt...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortu...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the r...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political po...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally lo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence nev...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never try to outstubborn a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Love" is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own...Jealou...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I grok in fullness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay o...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest lan...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I’ve been kissed by men who did a very good job. But they don’t give kissing their whole attenti...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN He's an honest politician--he stays bought.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say th...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its fa...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discove...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no safety this side of the grave
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good....
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the pretties...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Secrecy begets tyranny.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the oth...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, desig...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Belief gets in the way of learning.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith - it...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are f...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Those who cling to the untrue doctrine that violence never settles anything would be advised to conj...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The universe never did make sense. I suspect that it was built on a government contract.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you m...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do somethi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a c...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally lo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You live and you learn -- or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were rem...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find th...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sense is never common.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Why is it that every time I'm with you, makes me believe in magic?
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do somethin...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more yo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution kn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN