Idries Shah Quotes

Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

I do agree that Justin has integrity, honesty and amazing judgment, but sometimes I think he's just maybe too sensitive, and that's kind of scary.

Whatever I see, I trust my eyes, trust my reads, trust the guys running routes and kind of just let it go.

Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.

In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

I enjoy making the decisions.

You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.

If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

There are things we can control and the things we can't control. I can't control how people react to the work I do.