Idries Shah Quotes

You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

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• I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

  

  Dallas Roberts
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  • Pretty
  • Computers

• I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.

  

  Sam Kean
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• For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

  

  Walter Annenberg
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• Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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  • Marriage

• No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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  • She
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• Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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  • Think
  • Violence

• It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.

  

  Adam Arkin
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  • Work
  • Done

• I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.

  

  Naomi Klein
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  • Energy
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• If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
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• The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.

  

  Warren Spector
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  • Idea
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• I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.

  

  Warren Christie
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• Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
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  • End

• I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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  • Years
  • More

• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  

  Jack Levine
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  • Like
  • Independent

• Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Important
  • End
  • Theory

• When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.

  

  Ed Weeks
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  • Doing

• I think everybody wants someone who understands them and is able to compromise and meet them halfway. I mean, it goes both ways, you know?

  

  OMI
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  • Compromise

• You can work really hard on your physicality, on your craft, on the films you do. You can choose the best of directors, the best of productions, get the best technicians, you can put your entire body and soul into the making of a film, but at the end of the day, it all depends on the mood of that one audience member that goes into that theater.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Day

• If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

  

  Randy Quaid
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  • You
  • Stick

• Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.

  

  Sam Kean
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  • Ending

• You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

  

  Idries Shah
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  • End
  • Means