Rumi Quotes
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
Quotes to Explore
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
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I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
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I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.
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I hold strongly to my identity as a Chicago artist and want to do whatever I can to participate in creating a strong community here so that artists don't feel pressure to move somewhere else to succeed.
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I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
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Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'
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We hope 'Toy Story 3' looks amazing but still retains the character design of the first film. I like to think it looks like 'Toy Story' would have looked back then had we had the skills and the technology.
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David Foster Wallace, in my opinion, is one of the greatest writers we've ever had, certainly in the last twenty years. His obvious dominance of the English language is partnered with honest moments and the most beautifully dark sensibility.
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If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.
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When I was asked to leave, I left... Then they made me come back. I did, and I decided to enjoy it. It was one year. I care about everyone at 'Criminal Minds' but I knew, in my heart, I had left.
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
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Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
