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Title: Mistborn Authors: Brandon Sanderson Category:supplementals Number of Highlights: 27 Date: 2025-10-25 Last Highlighted: **
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âBelief isnât simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is beliefâwhat is faithâif you donât continue in it after failure?â
Tags:persistence
âMy dear friend,â Breeze replied, âthe entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Donât you know anything about basic economics?â
âYou donât stop loving someone just because they hurt you,â he said. âIt would certainly make things easier if you did.â
If men read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.
Tags:power
We know how to take an incredibly large task and break it down to manageable pieces, then deal with each of those pieces.
Tags:favorite,leadership,systems,work
âIf youâre always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.
Tags:time
Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.â
Tags:hope
âThe best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.â
âThe trick is to never stop looking. Thereâs always another secret.â
There was a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessedâthereafter, their lives could only get better.â
âThe emotions will fade, wonât they?â Vin said as a red-clothed serving girl entered the crowd. âYes,â Breeze said, sitting back and sliding the panel closed. âBut memories stay. If people associate strong emotion with an event, theyâll remember it better.â
âYou ask why I smile, Goodman Mennis? Well, the Lord Ruler thinks he has claimed laughter and joy for himself. Iâm disinclined to let him do so. This is one battle that doesnât take very much effort to fight.â
âThatâs the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,â he said with a wink. âOnce youâre there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.
She had always been forced to fight to find privacy. Being given it so easily seemed to devalue the years she had spent relishing her brief moments of solitude.
Tags:privacy
Kelsier shrugged. âI thinkâŠI think given the choice between loving Mareâbetrayal includedâand never knowing her, Iâd choose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it. Itâs the same with my friends. Suspicion is healthy in our professionâbut only to an extent. Iâd rather trust my men than worry about what will happen if they turn on me.â
âStrength is a big part of fighting, but itâs not the only part. If you always hit your hardest, youâll tire faster and youâll give your opponent information about your limitations. A smart man hits his hardest at the end of a battle, when his opponent is weakest. And, in an extended battleâlike a warâthe smart soldier is the one who survives the longest. Heâll be the man who paces himself.â
Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.
Tags:perspective
âInquisitor!â Breeze said, pointing toward a robed figure standing before Kelsier. âWhat?â Dockson said, standing. Itâs a trap, Vin realized with horror. Soldiers began to pile into the square, appearing from hidden side streets.
The man who wants you to trust him is the one you must fear the most.
Betrayal had nothing to do with friendship; it was a simple fact of survival.
If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.â
âYouâre late, Kell,â Dockson said, still not looking up from his ledgers. âI strive for nothing if not consistency,â
I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available.
âThink about it. What is a man doing when he seeks the affection of a young lady? Why, he is trying to manipulate her to regard him favorably. What happens when two old friends sit down for a drink? They tell stories, trying to impress each other. Life as a human being is about posturing and influence. This isnât a bad thingâin fact, we depend upon it. These interactions teach us how to respond to others.â
Ham nodded. âIâm a Thug.â Vin frowned in confusion. âI burn pewter,â Ham said. Again, Vin looked at him questioningly. âHe can make himself stronger, my dear,â Breeze said. âHe hits thingsâparticularly other peopleâwho try to interfere with what the rest of us are doing.â
âMany high noblemen only have access to a single Allomantic skill. People like thatâthose who can only perform Allomancy in one of its eight basic aspectsâare called Mistings. Sometimes these abilities appear in skaaâbut only if that skaa has noble blood in his or her near ancestry. You can usually find one Misting inâŠoh, about ten thousand mixed-breed skaa. The better, and closer, the noble ancestry, the more likely the skaa is to be a Misting.â
He fought against a thousand years of conditioning, a thousand years of life in a society that would label the deaths of five thousand men as a âgreat victory.â Life was so hopeless for the skaa that theyâd been reduced to finding comfort in expected defeats.