Rumi Quotes

Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.

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• Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • World
  • Real
  • King

• I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Want
  • Science
  • Learning

• I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Push

• I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Culture
  • Thought

• You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Money
  • Done
  • Man

• I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Love
  • Team
  • Change

• If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

  

  Beck
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Judgment

• When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Facts

• Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Great
  • Man
  • Gratitude

• I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Believe
  • May
  • Circumstances

• I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Car
  • Listen
  • Rather

• I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Think
  • New York
  • Texas

• It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• 'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Film
  • WIld
  • Throwback

• A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Strong

• I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Never
  • Now

• All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Life
  • Work
  • Words

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Work
  • Real
  • Remember

• I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Write

• Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.

  

  Anna Kamienska
  • Heart
  • Pain

• Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.

  

  Rumi
  • Color
  • Motivated
  • Talk