Orient Quotes

“The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.”

“The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.”

“Strive to be value oriented rather than success oriented.”

“A leader is solution oriented and a philosopher is problem oriented.”

“If a goal is only success oriented and not happiness oriented, then it will fill your life with stress, anxiety, and frustration.”

“If you are opportunity oriented, you will find opportunities all around you. If you are problem oriented, you will see problems all around you.”

“There's pearl of the orient seas but it happens to be also a pearl of orient corruptions.”

“You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.”

“There are two kinds of people: goal-oriented and ego-oriented. Goal-oriented people work together and get things gone. Ego-oriented people don’t work.”

“I mean to ask whether there is any way of avoiding the hostility expressed by the division say, of men into "us" (Westerners) and "they" (Orientals). For such divisions are generalities whose use historically and actually has been to press the importance of the distinction between some men and some other men, usually towards not especially admirable ends.”

“When you confront, you are more result oriented.”