G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
G. I. Gurdjieff
Quotes to Explore
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You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
Yuri Milner
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Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.
Naveen Jain
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I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.
Patrice Motsepe
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
Samuel Alexander
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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
Samantha Power
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The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.
Octavia Spencer
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When I get on the World Cup tour, I'm kind of disconnected from the world. I just kind of get wrapped up in my world and wrapped up in trying to ski fast every day, and I forget about everything else.
Lindsey Vonn
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I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.
Michael Ealy
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Humanity must accept that the food, the raw materials, the energy, the scientific knowledge and so on, belongs to everybody, that it is given by Divine providence for all peoples, the rich nations and what are called the developing nations. No one has the right to corner the goods of the world as is done today, whether that be oil or food or any of the things that we think are so important.
Benjamin Creme
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Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.
Bruno Bettelheim
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Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
G. I. Gurdjieff
