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
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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.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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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.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.
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Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.
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The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
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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.
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Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures.
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So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.
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There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
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In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.
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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
