Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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• You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Me
  • Best
  • Tea

• I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Think
  • Like
  • Independent

• My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Years

• I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Stop
  • Learning
  • Listening

• No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Career
  • You
  • New

• I think often that God is guiding me.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • God
  • Think
  • Me

• I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Desire
  • Understand
  • Driven

• I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Live
  • Movies
  • New York

• I love the 1,500 meters. I knew that, if I had to do it to win, I'd run under 4:05. That means I could pick up 100 points, maybe even 150 points, on anybody in the world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • World
  • Love

• I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Power
  • Never
  • Album

• The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Support
  • College

• Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Music
  • Power
  • Song

• At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Leader
  • Stage
  • Orchestra

• I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism - a human being is exercising extremism - in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Believe
  • Justice

• We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

  

  Dan Quayle

• But our love it was stronger by far than the loveOf those who were older than we - Of many far wiser than we - And neither the angels in Heaven aboveNor the demons down under the seaCan ever dissever my soul from the soulOf the beautiful Annabel Lee

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
  • Heaven

• What Is, is, what Was, was, but what is To Be, may be otherwise.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • May

• It's even easier to write about the past now that I'm happy and have better stuff to write about. That's why someone like Bob Dylan can make so many records over so long a time; it's not like he's been sad all this time. He's really successful!

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

• Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Long
  • Together
  • Guy

• I was auditioning a lot in L.A., and I was actually getting called back a lot for sitcoms. But I wasn't getting jobs. I even tested for 'Saturday Night Live' and didn't get that.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Live
  • Night
  • Saturday

• The critical study of the philosophies of the past should lead to the study of modern theories. For these latter, born of the fire of contemporary struggles, are militant and alive.

  

  Kwame Nkrumah
  • Past
  • Study
  • Fire

• An ardent affection for the human race makes enthusiastic characters eager to produce alteration in laws and governments prematurely. To render them useful and permanent, they must be the growth of each particular soil, and the gradual fruit of the ripening understanding of the nation, matured by time, not forced by an unnatural fermentation.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • Growth

• To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti