U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes

The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

U.G. Krishnamurti

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• I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Artist
  • Better
  • Explore

• I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Up
  • Game
  • Waiting

• My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I'm no stranger to fight training. I used to do jujitsu and boxing as a kid. I was a running back in football for my high school and my college. I played ice hockey as well as did theater. So, there's always been a physical nature to me.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • School
  • Nature
  • High

• I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Unique

• The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Now
  • Surprise
  • France

• I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.

  

  Washed Out
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Limit

• My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • World
  • Surprise

• We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • House
  • Look
  • White

• I love to watch old movies when I get time off.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Time
  • Love
  • Movies

• Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Stand
  • Other
  • Shoulders

• I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Women
  • Love
  • Death

• I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • Job

• My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Family
  • Father

• Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • People
  • School
  • Parents

• They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Up
  • Time
  • Dead

• Scott Brown is a superstar. Scott Brown won a race that nobody expected Republicans to even be competitive in, and he was able to do it at a time when nothing else going on, so he captured the attention of conservatives across the country.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • Country
  • Attention

• I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Daily
  • Walk
  • Island

• Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Great
  • Different
  • Culture

• For at least a decade, Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, and stuck on social media. While that may not be entirely fair, they are notoriously liberal, overwhelmingly supporting left-leaning candidates and favoring policies like nationalized healthcare and same-sex 'marriage.'

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • May
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• I wouldn't take the reaction of the fans as a factor in which player I sign. I would be amazed if he didn't get a good reaction when he comes back.

  

  Clinton Morrison
  • Fans
  • Reaction
  • Amazed

• So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services.

  

  Kevin Rollins
  • Done

• If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.

  

  David Elkind
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti