Conditioning Quote by Idries Shah Download Open image “If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.” — Idries Shah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conditioning Desire Evolution Greed Ifs Learning Selfishness Sufi Sufis Teaching
Greed may not be good, but it’s not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
Greed is all right, by the way... I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. — Ivan F Boesky Copy Share Image
I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. — Ivan Boesky Copy Share Image
Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Greed-for lack of a better word-is good. Greed is right. Greed works. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness. — John Donne Copy Share Image
One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Greed causes you to never be satisfied, because you always want more and as soon as you get what you want — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I… — Nolan Ryan Copy Share Image
The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as it unfolds… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It’s… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
What do you have to surrender? A drop has to dissolve into the ocean to become the ocean. And a drop cannot be greater… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not come easily.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows. — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
