Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes

There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.

Pyotr Ouspensky

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• I'm not a psychiatrist.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Psychiatrist

• Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Year

• I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Up
  • Light
  • I Can

• I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Serious
  • Enjoy

• I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Just
  • Normal

• I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I don't have 'I will be a movie star' emblazoned on anything, but I'd like do a bit more screen stuff and then when the time is right come back to theatre. When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • You
  • Confidence
  • Patience

• It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • World
  • Girl
  • Perfect

• A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Asking
  • Species
  • Definition

• I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Hope
  • Romantic
  • Flowers

• You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Stupid

• I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Fashion
  • Actress
  • Well

• As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Living

• Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to college, that's when I'll start spending. Way too many athletes go broke these days, and I like saving my money so that I can ensure my family and friends currently and after me will never have to endure some of the things I did when I was a kid.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Business
  • Revolution
  • Modern

• I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Experience
  • Worry
  • Go

• You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

  

  Don Bluth
  • Money
  • Business

• Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys and girls of each community? Have they grown up to believe in politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without effort, wealth without work, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice?

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Business
  • Knowledge
  • Community

• A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Success
  • Happiness

• I don't trust the people when they say, 'There's pressure when you're top.' I prefer the pressure of being top of the table.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • People
  • Trust

• We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Mind
  • Running

• There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky