"Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening."

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Source : Idries Shah (1997). “The Commanding Self”, p.39, Octagon Press Ltd

Idries Shah

#Trying Quotes #Way Quotes #Force Quotes

“The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine.”
“We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.”
“Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison”

Source : Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”
“Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.”
“I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.”
“As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word.”
“The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines and techniques, but also new attitudes and dispositions. The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.”

Source : Elliot W. Eisner (2002). “The Arts and the Creation of Mind”, p.240, Yale University Press
“Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved”

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