Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

Pyotr Ouspensky

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• I ended the war a horse ahead.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • War
  • Horse
  • Ahead

• Katie Holmes is really amazing.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Amazing
  • Holmes
  • Katie

• As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Child
  • Vocalists

• One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Holy
  • Holiness

• While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Love
  • Funny
  • Busy

• I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Up
  • America
  • Think

• I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Time
  • Family
  • First

• Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

  

  Zola Budd
  • World
  • Small
  • Looking Back

• Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Duty
  • Rights
  • Flow

• I understand how the economy actually works.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Understand
  • Economy
  • How

• Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Dress

• In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • History
  • Science
  • Respect

• I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.

  

  Faith Prince
  • People
  • New York
  • Searching

• Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • People
  • Know
  • Leader

• I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.' That way you won't be brokenhearted if ever it gets canceled five episodes in - which has happened to me.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Love
  • Me
  • Fall

• Your belief system saturates the space around you.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • You
  • Space
  • Belief

• There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Writing
  • Enough
  • Smart

• When I was young I used to listen to everything.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Young
  • Used

• But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Sport
  • Publisher
  • Dearth

• The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Belief
  • Consciousness
  • Coaching