G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
Quotes to Explore
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The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.
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If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
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Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.
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It would be difficult to devise a process more inclined to throw up errors than the production of a newspaper.
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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
