"When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters."

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Idries Shah

#People Quotes #Tasks Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.”
“In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.”
“Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.”
“Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.”

Source : "The Scientific Character of Geology". The Journal of Geology, Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 453-463, July 1961.
“Because God is the living God, He can hear; because He is a loving God, He will hear; because He is our covenant God, He has bound Himself to hear.”
“Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world”
“I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.”
“I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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