Idries Shah Quotes
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.Idries Shah
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
J. B. Smoove -
Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman -
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney -
I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
Daniel Curtis Lee -
To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
Dale Dauten
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Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.
Baba Kalyani -
Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.
Karen Finerman -
With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
Viggo Mortensen -
I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
Mamie Van Doren -
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
Ovid -
The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
Bassem Youssef
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
Bai Ling -
I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
Zac Brown Band -
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
Samuel Alexander -
When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
Adam Hasner -
A man's kiss is his signature.
Mae West -
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
Oriana Fallaci
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
Chuck Close -
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
Edgar Mitchell -
I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.
Ian Anderson -
The home studio has taken a bite. People are choosing cheapness over quality. They just don't want to spend the money.
Paul Williams The Temptations -
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
Idries Shah