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“I don’t know. ‘Errorgant,’ perhaps.” Jasnah raised a skeptical eyebrow. “It means to be twice as certain as someone who is merely arrogant,” Shallan said, “while possessing only one-tenth the requisite facts.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“praise should be honest, but it should never be withheld.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“No one wants to hear what I have to say."
"Ha! No one wants to hear what anyone has to say, but you say it anyway.”
― Neal Shusterman

“Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed. “Conversely, if you gain a reputation for being too good, too skilled . . . beware. The better art will be in their heads, and if you give them an ounce less than they imagined, suddenly you have failed. Suddenly you are useless. A man will find a single coin in the mud and talk about it for days, but when his inheritance comes and is accounted one percent less than he expected, then he will declare himself cheated.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance