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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• We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.

  

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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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• I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.

  

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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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• There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.

  

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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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• It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.

  

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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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• 'Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.'

  

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• We all wish we could find and embrace our voice, our strength.

  

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• The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.

  

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• Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'

  

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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