Idries Shah Quotes

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

Idries Shah

• Study
• Actions
• Behind
• Assumptions

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Study
  • Working
  • Singer

• The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Study
  • Matter
  • Analysis

• Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • God
  • Result
  • Actions

• I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Behind

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

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• Each is responsible for his own actions.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • Own
  • Actions
  • Responsible

• Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Study

• I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Study
  • Stress
  • Year

• I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Always
  • Actions
  • Hardships

• I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Security
  • Terrible

• Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • American
  • Study

• Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • She
  • Mom

• I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Study
  • Crime
  • Loneliness

• I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

  

  Randy Travis
  • World
  • Leave
  • Behind

• The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Thought
  • Temptation
  • Behind

• My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'

  

  Sam Richards
  • Way
  • Study
  • Things

• I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Purpose
  • Study
  • Years

• But sometimes the bravest thing a Hero has to do is not fighting monsters and cheating death and witches. It is facing the consequences of his own actions.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Hero
  • Actions
  • Consequences

• 'The Last Ship,' which is a beautifully written piece, is about a love triangle and young men working in a shipyard. Audiences may prefer to see a show that allows them to forget about their worries for an evening.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Men
  • Love
  • May

• Vengeance is mine; I will repay.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

• A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Story
  • Legacy
  • Determined

• Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own. (Originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus or ginkgoes, or, later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even to this day, we say that someone is green with jealousy.) Buttercup's case rated a close fourth on the all-time list. It was a very long and very green night.

  

  William Goldman
  • People
  • Long
  • Night

• Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Study
  • Actions
  • Behind