Idries Shah Quotes

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Idries Shah

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• I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Think
  • Enthusiasm

• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Relationships

• Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Future
  • Motivational
  • Now

• I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Wishes

• Mister Cee's a legend, man.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Man
  • Legend
  • Mister

• My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

  

  Halsey
  • Alone
  • Yourself
  • Isolation

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Strong
  • Wife
  • Leaving

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Single
  • Information
  • Changes

• The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.

  

  Young Thug
  • Why
  • Reason
  • Young

• I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Work
  • Country
  • Some

• Being a celebrity is a business.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Business
  • Being
  • Celebrity

• At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Water

• We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Keep
  • Compliments

• When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

  

  Ben Shahn
  • People
  • Great
  • War

• If you do have a team where every rider has a huge list of results, that means everybody wants to do the race for themselves. The strongest team in the Tour is not the strongest team on paper.

  

  Tyler Hamilton
  • Team

• I thought my dad was a scientist when I was young. Seriously. Because people would come up to me, and they would be like, 'Your dad is the smartest person that I've ever met.' And I was so young, so I'd be like, 'Well he just put me on a time out, so I don't agree.'

  

  Jaden Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities to study people; and every time I went out on the stage I tried to show the audience some bit of true human nature.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Incarcerating non-violent offenders in the same population as more dangerous criminals has the effect of inculcating the former into a culture of criminality common among the latter, making them more of a risk to public safety upon release than when they originally went in.

  

  Ken Cuccinelli
  • Culture
  • Risk
  • Safety

• Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Time
  • Real