G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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• Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • War
  • Elements
  • Diplomacy

• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Great
  • May
  • Value

• In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Kind
  • Find
  • Slavery

• I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Life
  • Story
  • Trials

• In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Power
  • End

• I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Help
  • Parents
  • First

• Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Artist
  • Travel
  • Possible

• Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Up
  • Great
  • Love

• The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.

  

  Kara Walker
  • World
  • Real
  • Space

• Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

  

  Ed Case
  • Want
  • Change
  • Vote

• I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days... all I want to do is get home to my baby.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Time
  • Home
  • Baby

• There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Love
  • Singing

• It's not that I don't feel bad about it. It's just that I don't feel worse today than what I felt yesterday.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Bad
  • Today

• When conflicted between two choices, take neither.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Choices

• A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

  

  Angela Carter
  • Book

• The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Confidence

• A novel is not an allegory ... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • World
  • Heart
  • Experience

• There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it's been useful. Isn't more information better than less information?

  

  Peter Bergen
  • People
  • Done

• A friend of mine once, when I was 11 years old, mentioned that there was a youth theater, a local amateur youth theater nearby where young people could go every Sunday. And that's where it began, really.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • People
  • Friend
  • Sunday

• As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

  

  Emily James Smith Putnam
  • Evidence
  • Survives
  • Predominance

• This is sports. In sports, you win and you lose. That's the nature of sports. You can't get away from that part of it. And if you get too hung up on the losing part, then you miss the boat. The competition part, a game like that, is why you play sports. That is as good as it gets.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Up
  • Good
  • Why

• I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Silence

• To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Vision

• Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff