Pir Vilayat Khan Quotes

There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind.

Pir Vilayat Khan

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• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Change

• I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Think
  • Want
  • Effort

• Sometimes we do things that are really awful.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Awful

• I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • People
  • Hate
  • Things

• Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Better
  • Talent
  • Genius

• I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • I Can

• Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • High
  • Voice
  • Notes

• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Interesting
  • Effort
  • Liberal

• The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Life
  • Writing
  • She

• Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Give

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Society
  • Worth
  • Tax

• In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • American
  • Girl
  • City

• To read too many books is harmful.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Books
  • Read
  • Too

• Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

  

  Ralph Ransom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Power
  • Change

• There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Game

• I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Rely

• We don't have to live in a world where everyone reacts perfectly the first time around, and if you don't, everything falls apart, and no one speaks to you ever again.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• I am trying to make sure that I don't spend on ridiculous things, so that after all this YouTube thing goes, I'm not left there, like, 'Uh oh, I have nothing.'

  

  KSI
  • Trying

• I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

  

  Sara Gilbert
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Waiting

• Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Life
  • Still
  • Therapist

• There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind.

  

  Pir Vilayat Khan
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Understanding