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<blockquote data-quote="Wizard" data-source="post: 14016" data-attributes="member: 1975">Mood? What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises — no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Counsel of Gurney Halleck to young Paul Atreides when he declares he is not in the mood for training.&nbsp; &nbsp; I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear.&nbsp; &nbsp; Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; from The Humanity of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan&nbsp; &nbsp; I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Duke Leto AtreidesA prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognise snares, and a lion to frighten wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this -Machiavelli&quot;No! Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.&quot;-Yoda</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wizard, post: 14016, member: 1975"] [b]Mood? What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises — no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.[/b] [i] Counsel of Gurney Halleck to young Paul Atreides when he declares he is not in the mood for training.[/i] [b]I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.[/b] [i] Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear.[/i] [b]Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.[/b] [i]from The Humanity of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan[/i] [b]I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds[/b]. [i]Duke Leto Atreides[/i] [b]A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognise snares, and a lion to frighten wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this [/b] [i]-Machiavelli[/i] [b]"No! Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try."[/b] [i]-Yoda[/i] [/QUOTE]

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