Idries Shah Quotes
Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
Idries Shah
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
Orison Swett Marden
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
Ilya Ilyin
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
Gabriel Byrne
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
Fiona Apple
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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
Dana Carvey
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Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
Tabitha Soren
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People never understand what a friendship is. I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend.
Udo Kier
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As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!
Zoe McLellan
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I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.
Perry Farrell
Jane's Addiction
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Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
William Cobbett
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You can't raise kids alone, you can't heal alone... you really need a community.
Bryce Dallas Howard
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
Idries Shah