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“You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.”
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“The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.”
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“The penalty of greatness is to write autographs.”
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“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.”
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“The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.”
Source : Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”
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“Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.”
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“Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?”
Source : "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 281, 1991.
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“Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.”
