G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes

Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

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• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

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• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

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• Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

  

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• If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

  

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• Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

  

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• Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.

  

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• Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.

  

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• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

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• Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

  

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• After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.

  

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• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

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• Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

  

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• When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

  

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• Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.

  

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• First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

  

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• Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

  

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• Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Work
  • Done
  • Animal