Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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• 9) Ethics change with technology.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Technology
  • Ethics

• The worst thing that can happen is if you're stuck within a bubble and you think that is what life is all about. It's great to see other people and hear from people of different ages and opinions.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I've never really liked horror films.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden

• A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • American
  • Comedy
  • Tired

• Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.

  

  W. Cleon Skousen
  • Real
  • American
  • Nature

• I think overall we were rusty. But the truth of the matter is if we don't know what time it is, it's time to play.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Truth
  • Play
  • I Think

• That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Success
  • Period
  • First

• An unread book does nobody any good.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Good
  • Book

• So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into those positions of power... So what we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state, I mean, what we are, are the propagandized masses inside a fascist dictatorship.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mean
  • Citizens
  • Fantasy

• We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Same

• Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

  

  Jack Dunphy
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Anything
  • Would
  • Richard

• You remain the more than natural figure. You Become the soft-footed phantom, the irrationalDistortion, however fragrant, however dear. That’s it: the more than rational distortion, The fiction that results from feeling. Yes, that.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Feeling

• Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Book
  • Quite
  • Simply

• I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue.

  

  Cecil Beaton
  • Criticism
  • Worst
  • Ear

• Makeup is part of my daily routine. It's the time in my mornings when I can concentrate on me, and me alone. Giving yourself the kind of attention is so important - and is something that is definitely glossed over by to many women

  

  Kat Von D
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Attention

• The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

  

  Plato
  • Desire
  • Philosophy
  • Gymnastics

• It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Flute
  • Solid wood