George Gurdjieff Quotes
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.George Gurdjieff
Quotes to Explore
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
Laurance Rockefeller -
I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
Barack Obama -
I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
Oksana Baiul -
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
Baz Luhrmann -
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie -
I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
Laura Wade
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
Banksy -
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
Kara Swisher -
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
Manuel Puig -
Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
Ferran Adria
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Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.
W. Averell Harriman -
There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
Adam Braun -
But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.
Lasse Hallstrom -
Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.
Wendy Kopp -
The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.
Indira Gandhi -
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
Salman Rushdie
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The people who know Ted Cruz best despise him, including his former college roommate.
David Brock -
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.
Gene Tierney -
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.
Plutarch -
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
George Gurdjieff