Wojciech Kurtyka Quotes

The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everything

Wojciech Kurtyka

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• Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Long
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  • Feeling

• The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

  

  Victor Garber
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  • Ability
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• In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

  

  La India
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

  

  Madame de Stael
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• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Feelings
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• I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

  

  Edan Lepucki
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  • Space
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• I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scared of me. That's just kind of the nature of who I am as a person and player. But I also know that you have to be emotional. You have to be in touch with your feelings. I think that's important.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Nature
  • Player
  • Feelings

• I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Church
  • Feelings

• I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Relationship
  • Feelings
  • Been

• Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Feeling
  • Water
  • Spiritual

• I was raised with a ton of brothers and sisters where, obviously, the music running in and out of the house was very eclectic. So, I had a lot under my belt by the time I grew up. It all depends upon the mood that I'm in, the space that I'm in and what I'm feeling at that moment. But definitely!

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• It's been the toughest week of my life, not touching you. Not talking to you. Waiting to see what you were going to do." He kissed her again, a warm, damp touch of lips, exquisitely controlled. "But it doesn't matter whether you stay or go. I'll still need you. So if you want to go off to Boston, Ill wait. Right here, whenever you need me.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Life
  • Control
  • Waiting

• You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't.

  

  Leonard Susskind
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  • Eyes
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• To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.

  

  Zeno of Citium
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Nature

• The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Feeling
  • Health
  • Feelings

• If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Life
  • Feelings

• And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Feelings
  • Emotional

• I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• Down there it's still Summer, I suppose, whereas our sun in Switzerland is already gilding the mountains and the larches are turning yellow, but the colours are wonderful, like old, dark red satin. Down here in the valley the huts stand out in the strongest Paris blue against the yellow fields. Here one really learns the values of the individual colours for the first time. And the harsh, monumental lines of the mountains.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Summer
  • Values
  • Paris

• The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everything

  

  Wojciech Kurtyka
  • Feelings
  • Significant
  • Climbing