Idries Shah Quotes
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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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.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
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I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
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I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
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I think I scare people. I really have to watch myself.
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I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.
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My father was a Democrat.
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It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.
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A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
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When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
