Idries Shah Quotes
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.Idries Shah
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
J. B. Smoove -
Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman -
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney -
I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
Daniel Curtis Lee -
To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
Dale Dauten
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Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.
Baba Kalyani -
Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.
Karen Finerman -
With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
Viggo Mortensen -
I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
Mamie Van Doren -
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
Ovid -
Time was God's first creation.
Walter Lang
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
Bassem Youssef -
Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
Bai Ling -
I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
Zac Brown Band -
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
Samuel Alexander -
When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
Adam Hasner -
A man's kiss is his signature.
Mae West
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We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy.
Ellen DeGeneres -
Vail Resorts School of Shred program is a great way to help encourage kids to stay active by getting them outside and on the mountain.
Lindsey Vonn -
I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.'
Leonard Slatkin -
All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.
Allan Massie -
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
Idries Shah