Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

Pyotr Ouspensky

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• If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Jump
  • Skin
  • Wood

• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Concentration
  • Equate
  • Pow

• Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Time
  • Democracy

• I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Have
  • Dresses
  • Many

• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • God
  • Artist
  • Just

• I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Amount
  • Scholar
  • Nihilism

• You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Life
  • Good
  • Hope

• You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

  

  Larry King
  • Why
  • Question
  • Questions

• I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Quirky

• This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Me

• One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Up
  • Moments
  • Looks

• There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Problems
  • Everyone
  • Solve

• We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Long
  • Change

• My parents have been with me every step of the way.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Step

• I dress for men.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Men
  • Dress

• When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Moments

• Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Alone

• My daughter is almost a young lady. She's going to be 10 years old in December and I want to be there day-in and day-out.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • She
  • Want
  • Years

• True prayer is asking God what He wants.

  

  William Barclay
  • Want
  • Prayer
  • Asking

• You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Moving

• The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.

  

  Eric Liddell
  • Success
  • Secret
  • God's Help

• Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Want
  • Desire
  • What You Want