G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often.
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For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again.
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I like his heart, his effort, his athletic ability and his activeness.
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Hope of consciousness is strength.
