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It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?

It is not ‘Have I got a chance?’ It is more often: ‘Have I seen my chance?
– Idries Shah

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  2. Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition. – Idries Shah
  3. Show a man too many camels’ bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. – Idries Shah
  4. Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied – or think that they have been denied – something. – Idries Shah
  5. The full length of a frog doesn’t have to be seen when it’s dead. It has to be seen when it jumps. Aim for greater heights always. – Constance Chuks Friday
  6. The say money talks, but I’ve seen it sing, and even seen it dance. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  7. Don’t base reality on what you have seen when you have seen very little. – Scott Sigler
  8. An educated woman is seen as a human being with a ??????. An uneducated woman is seen as a ?????? with a human being. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  9. I have seen enormous changes. I have not seen enough change. I, too, can hardly wait. – Kay Mills
  10. I have seen the best in you, I have seen the worst in you and I am yet to see a lot in you. – Pushpa Rana
  11. Faith is evidence unseen and never seen, trust is gained from evidence seen and understood. – Gary J Spaulding
  12. Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike. – Thomas Hardy
  13. Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. – Benjamin Disraeli
  14. Just as a star can’t be seen behind a cloud, you can never shine and be seen behind the clouding of your insecurities. – Dr Jacinta Mpalyenkana
  15. I’ve always seen you, angel. From the moment you found me, I’ve seen nothing but you. – Sylvia Day
  16. I have seen an evil thing this night,’ he said; ‘I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life. – Francis Marion Crawford
  17. That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven’t seen nobody, you’re actually saying that you have seen somebody. – Michael Monroe
  18. Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either. – Frederik L Schodt
  19. It’s as if he’s trodden in my footsteps, seen what I’ve seen, felt what I’ve felt, as I’ve criss-crossed the moors countless times. – Sanjida Kay
  20. If you haven’t seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven’t seen her smile her prettiest. – Kin Hubbard
  21. Seen no matter how and said as seen. Dread of black. Of white. Of void. Let her vanish. And the rest. For good. – Samuel Beckett
  22. The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them. – JK Rowling
  23. The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile. – Hans Selye
  24. Nothing in this world is -˜by chance’. There are -œcovered causes- (hidden) within. -˜By chance’ is also the result of an effort. – Dada Bhagwan
  25. If you leave your life to chance, you can’t make a change. Chance may favour a prepared mind, but it doesn’t create change! Will does so. – Israelmore Ayivor
  26. In front of him stood the woman of his dreams, giving him one last chance to kiss her.Reason didn’t stand a chance. – Tan Redding
  27. Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter. – Archibald Marwizi
  28. When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you. – Bryant McGill
  29. Take that chance :even though this is hard, you’ll get it in a peace.Leave that chance :i know it’s easy, but you will always walk in regret – Hera Septyadita
  30. If his choice now was to risk either sunshine with a chance of rain or heatstroke with a chance of tornado, he’d go with the sunshine. – Meredith Marple
  31. Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw – Robert A Heinlein
  32. If you have the chance to achieve, do it. Life is about taking a chance on something incredible. – Anastasia Bolinder
  33. You can take care of everything except chance. Chance can kill you. – Charles Williams
  34. A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation – Tahir Shah
  35. If I knew what two and two were -“ I would say Four! – Idries Shah
  36. Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi’s reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates. – Idries Shah
  37. The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed. – Idries Shah
  38. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah
  39. Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest. – Idries Shah
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