Idries Shah Quotes
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
Idries Shah
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
Dan Gilroy
Breakfast Club
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
Aaron Patzer
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
Pam Grier
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Lao Tzu
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
Lacey Chabert
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Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.
Paula Malcomson
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You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with three jobs: founder, CEO, and chair of the board. The first eight years at Bonobos, I have learned a lot about the tension between the first two. It didn't even occur to me that I had the third job until much later.
Andy Dunn
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When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle.
Janine di Giovanni
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It's almost inevitable there's going to be an escalation on both sides.
Bill Luther
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A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.
Dan Gable
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When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
Idries Shah