Idries Shah Quotes
There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I was an expert horseman.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was shown, but on the other side of bars; if present, it was at a distance, under the eyes of a reason that no longer felt any relation to it and that would not compromise itself by too close a resemblance. Madness had become a thing to look at: no longer a monster inside oneself, but an animal with strange mechanisms, a bestiality from which man had long since been suppressed.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
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I've always been a little crazy.
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My argument to you is that this is not new construction. This is reconstruction. We can talk about how much of the building we leave so we can qualify for reconstruction, but the truth is, there is no definition we know of that says when a reconstruction becomes new construction.
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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
