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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My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.
Cory Gardner
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If you say actors have a social responsibility to do things, you are right, in a way. It's a wishful decision. But if it's done out of force, I don't think it will accomplish anything. Everybody starts counting how much work they have done and see if they have done their due for the week. That is not social service. You need to go way beyond that.
R. Madhavan
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When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.
Claire Scovell LaZebnik
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One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
R. C. Sproul
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So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.
Catherine Marshall
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
G. I. Gurdjieff
