"It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares."

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Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.44, Octagon Press Ltd

Idries Shah

#Caring Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Who Cares Quotes

“I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.”
“I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.”
“If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become the very vehicle of freedom, of discovering the creative surprises that liberate mind-at-play.”

Source : Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.84, Penguin
“I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.”
“Drug users made me. They taught me. I didn't know how to work a scale; I didn't know what a gram was. Drug users taught me the business. They're going to teach it to the next guy, because they want a good drug dealer, one they can trust, one that's not going to rob them, one that's not going to cheat them out of their money, one that's not going to sell them fake dope. That was me. They're going to find another one because they're going to be looking for that guy every single day until they find him.”

Source : Source: www.brownpoliticalreview.org
“Perhaps teenagers don't interest me as much as children do since I still feel (even at 58) to be a fairly adolescent personality, especially in my enthusiasms, and I find myself an uninteresting fictional character.”

Source : "Go Forth (Vol. 15)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. September 10, 2013.
“Consumers view of you is not about how they compare you to other banks. It's about how they compare you to all of the other businesses they experience.”
“It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.”

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