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Idries Shah

"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."

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"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."

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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."

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"Your gift is what you were created to be."

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"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."

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"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"

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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."

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"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success."

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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

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"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."

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"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

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Idries Shah
"The Sufi saying has it: "God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings!"

Faith

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Idries Shah
"The task is to learn to live in peace with one's own nature."

Peace

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Idries Shah
"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."

Teaching

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Idries Shah
"One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets..."

Mortality

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Idries Shah
"However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet."

Self-Awareness

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Idries Shah
"You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan."

Journey

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Idries Shah
"The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round."

Knowledge

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Idries Shah
"They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse."

Aging

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Idries Shah
"It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'."

Spiritual

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"Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead."

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