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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I love hillwalking and have been doing a lot of climbing.
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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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Let's say I'm at a party and I don't like the feeling I'm getting, I'll just leave. Why do I have to be there?
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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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Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.
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But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man.
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He wasn't sure what he was saying, either, but he felt as if he were slipping into some dangerous world - one where answers ceased to be easy.
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We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.
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It's good to aggravate people a little. It makes them pay attention.
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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
