G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.
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'Humans of New York' wasn't the result of a fully finished idea that I thought of and then executed; it was an evolution. There were hundreds of tiny evolutions that came from me loving photography.
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My family was never happy with me. I could just say that across the board.
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The 'tragic flaw' is not a detail of characterization, a mere 'fly in the ointment', but a structural feature of ordinary consciousness. (p.45)
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Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.
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In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that.
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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
