Roy Huff > Quotes

“The answer you seek lies in learning to combine the power of reason with the passion of emotion. If you let reason alone control your choices, you lose the power of intuition. If you let emotion control your choices, you will be a slave to every minor tragedy.”
― Roy Huff, The First Pillar

“One may not be aware of the impact of one’s choices, but they can have a cumulative effect.”
― Roy Huff, The First Pillar

“Often, it isn’t what you do that prevents success or happiness, but what you don’t do. It’s the missed opportunities that arise from being so focused and absorbed in your own self-pity that keep you from experiencing joy and making the most of the precious time you have.”
― Roy Huff, Think Smart Not Hard: 52 Key Principles to Success and Happiness

“An evil deed can be forgiven. While it may not be forgotten, the deed is not the doer, and we must be willing to forgive, else we risk exposing ourselves to the same evil.”
― Roy Huff, The Rise of Mallory

“The battles that we fight are not against the greater evil or the greater good that exists in the multiverse; those battles have already been decided, like the rise and fall of tides in a great ocean. The real battles are the ones we fight from within. The real battles are the choices we make every day and what we learn from those choices.”
― Roy Huff, The City of Worms

“If you let reason alone control your choices, you lose the power of intuition. If you let emotion control your choices, you will be a slave to every minor tragedy.”
― Roy Huff, The First Pillar

“Most people were mainly aware of the dangers associated with action, but inaction was usually much more insidious. People often let inflation decimate their meager savings instead of investing it or succumbed to the health consequences of a sedentary lifestyle due to the fear of social interaction.”
― Roy Huff, Seven Rules of Time Travel

“I should warn you, though, that even good intentions could lead to unintended consequences. As you gain more awareness and control, you should not lose focus of your end goal. Otherwise, it can lead to over-confidence and even corruption. [...] That's why it's important to stay connected with those close to you who share your principle values. They can help ground you and stay focused, even from a great distance.”
― Roy Huff, The First Pillar

“The only thing that could be done now is to stay focused on the task at hand and try not to get distracted by the utter grandiosity of the moment.”
― Roy Huff, The First Pillar

“You see! If you come in contact with great power, you must not be overwhelmed by it. The secret to controlling great power is the same secret that you must apply in your daily life when you are faced with great challenges. You must calm yourself and quiet your mind. Learn to filter the distractions and focus on the key elements that really matter.”
― Roy Huff, The First Pillar

“If you trust your instincts, victory will be your reward.”
― Roy Huff, The Rise of Mallory

“Despite the great losses that we suffered, it is necessary that we remember what is important, why we move on, and why we live. The goodness that is in each of us, the friends and family that we hold dear, and the love that we have for each other makes all the suffering in the world worth the pain.”
― Roy Huff, The City of Worms

“I knew life was not perfectly simple and luck was involved, but it was undeniable that hard work paid dividends and being lazy was not generally a good idea. I also believed that having hope and a general sense of optimism made one more likely to be aware of opportunities and take advantage of those opportunities when they existed. After all, a serial pessimist would have no reason to take a risk if he thought failure was the likely outcome.”
― Roy Huff, The First Pillar

“One of the foundations of truth in the universe is that courage is required of any truly great species, and not just any courage. A lust for death and a willingness to die does not constitute courage. Courage is when you are willing to sacrifice your short-term desires for a greater purpose. Courage is when you are willing to live and endure suffering to achieve a greater end.”
― Roy Huff, The First Pillar

“Mark Twain summarized it best when it said, “It ain’t so much the things that people don’t know that make trouble in this world, as it is the things that people know that ain’t so.”
― Roy Huff, The Trouble With Time Travel

“I’ve always believed that truth is found by using logic and reason to sort through the facts and eliminate the contradictions. I guess the question then becomes, what do you do when you don’t have all the facts?”
― Roy Huff, The First Pillar

“In the end, out life is simply the sum of all our consequences from the sum of all our choices.”
― Roy Huff, The Rise of Mallory