Rumi Quotes

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

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• If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

  

  Lance Ito
  • You
  • See
  • Camera

• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Sports
  • Won

• Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Up
  • You
  • Rights

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Women
  • You
  • Know

• The very important thing you should have is patience.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Important
  • You
  • Patience

• The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • You
  • Quality

• Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • You
  • Back
  • Argue

• You know in the West they support realistic forces.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • You
  • Know
  • Support

• When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'

  

  Tanc Sade
  • You
  • Water
  • Like

• As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Art
  • Think
  • You

• Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • You
  • Opinion

• Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Experience
  • You
  • Mistake

• When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • You
  • Law
  • City

• You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Universe

• That's how you live. You participate. You take risks.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Live
  • You
  • Risks

• If you're not mindful about sugar, high sugar intake is just the worst thing for you, but I'm, like, everything in moderation, and that's how I approach it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • High
  • You
  • Worst

• I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

  

  Walter Reuther
  • Enough
  • Win
  • Lose

• I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Teach

• I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Me
  • Inspired
  • Grew

• While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Real
  • Risk
  • Financial

• I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • People
  • Never
  • Said

• If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

  

  Rumi
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  • Polished
  • Irritated