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I looked for perfection, and I found something better.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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More quotes by Orson Scott Card
If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.
Orson Scott Card
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.
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A weak King must be what other Kings have been a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.
Orson Scott Card
It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
Orson Scott Card
It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
Orson Scott Card
I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.
Orson Scott Card
For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.
Orson Scott Card
Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.
Orson Scott Card
Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.
Orson Scott Card
We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake. A habit.
Orson Scott Card
I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God. Then who are you? The personnel officer who hired God.
Orson Scott Card
If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.
Orson Scott Card
. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.
Orson Scott Card
You will learn to defeat the enemy.
Orson Scott Card
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
Orson Scott Card
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.
Orson Scott Card
Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.
Orson Scott Card
I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.
Orson Scott Card
I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it
Orson Scott Card
We've devoted our lives to learning about them! Miro said. Ender stopped. Not from them.
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