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 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 -
I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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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 -
There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
Adam Braun
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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 -
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 -
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
Umberto Eco -
Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
Laura Schlessinger -
When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
Laura Dern
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The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that.
Matthew Quick -
You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.
Debra Granik -
Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.
Barack Obama -
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
George Gurdjieff