A Quote by Tahir Shah

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

Tahir Shah

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Ability Breed Endure Explorers Hardship Iron Like Nerve People Pretend Select Terrible

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Tahir Shah
British - Author
Born: November 16, 1966

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

Mignon McLaughlin

You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.

Leo Buscaglia

If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

Jake M. Johnson

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Doris Lessing

If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble for the landlord.

Harry Golden

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

William Randolph Hearst

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Alan Furst

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

Shirley Jones

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers.

Walter Mosley

Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.

Chesty Puller

I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.

Rory McIlroy

A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that having a certain kind of temperament is more important than brains. You need to keep raw irrational emotion under control. You need patience and discipline and an ability to take losses and adversity without going crazy. You need an ability to not be driven crazy by extreme success

Charlie Munger

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.

Christopher Reeve

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

Sophocles

The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.

Charlie Munger

The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.

John Bevere

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