# Quote — Charles Sheffield, The Mind Pool

> We both know that actions taken from internal conviction are far better motivated than any external commands.

- Author: [Charles Sheffield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield.md)
- Book: [The Mind Pool](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/the-mind-pool.md)
- Page: 292
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Sheffield#The_Mind_Pool_(1993)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/the-mind-pool/we-both-know

## More from this book

> I find that prayers don’t work when you need them most. Unless you answer them for yourself.

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> In any civilized society, it is the individual or group who creates a problem that must have responsibility for solving it.

p. 19 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/the-mind-pool/in-any-civilized.md)

> Intelligence is too subtle an attribute to be inferred from appearance.

p. 281 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/the-mind-pool/intelligence-is-too.md)