G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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• Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • Know

• I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Interesting
  • Team
  • Win

• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Old
  • Fools
  • Behind

• Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Writing
  • Last
  • Sixteen

• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • War
  • Dog
  • Legal

• I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • People
  • Kid
  • Holidays

• I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Want
  • Sure
  • Restaurant

• There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Change
  • Moral
  • Nothing

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Blind

• I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Dream

• While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• I believe in forgiveness.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Believe
  • Forgiveness

• The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Free
  • System
  • Capitalism

• The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Night

• The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Problem

• I love action movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Love
  • Action
  • Movies

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Taken

• Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • American
  • Hope
  • Shadow

• Like knowing hostages, the AFL-CIO and its unions march in tandem to endorse the Democratic presidential nominees early in the primary season. They have given up their capacity for negotiation, so frightened are they of the Republicans. Meanwhile, the rank-and-file workers suffer their dwindling status in silence.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Up
  • Silence
  • Presidential

• Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Use