G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes

What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • War
  • Amazing
  • Universe

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Earth
  • Travel
  • Find

• The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Kids

• I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Look

• I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Process

• I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Like
  • Commercial

• Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Dream
  • Problem

• We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • American
  • Dream
  • Rest

• Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Love Is

• The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Forever

• I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Good
  • Money
  • Food

• I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Myself

• We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • House

• Putin could no more survive returning Crimea to Ukraine than Bibi Netanyahu could survive giving East Jerusalem back to Jordan.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Giving
  • Back
  • Survive

• Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?

  

  Eli Siegel
  • Energy
  • Painting
  • Composition

• The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'

  

  David Suzuki
  • Future
  • Brain
  • Creativity

• What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff