Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Desire
  • Understand
  • Driven

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Dan Quayle

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

  

  Tanith Lee
  • May

• At first Laing found something alienating about the concrete landscape of the project - an architecture designed for war, on the unconscious level if no other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Architecture

• Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Character
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• I haven't done much voice-over work, but I enjoy it. I'm hoping to do more in the future.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Work
  • Done
  • Future

• I say to people that it's a choice that we make every day in our lives. Doesn't matter what you're going through. You don't have to be going through what I went through. But it's whether you decide to get up or stay down, whether you say 'yes' or whether you say 'no' to life. Basically, I decided to say, 'Yes.'

  

  Janine Shepherd
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Mind

• When I had a baby, I didn't leave the second floor for six months. I nursed my babies. I was a full-time homemaker. I taught them all how to read before I let them go to school. So I gave them that care in the early life that somehow feminists have been led to believe is demeaning and is not worth the time of an educated woman.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• Every footfall, every voice was Don Achille creeping up behind us or coming down toward us with a long knife, the kind used for slicing open a chicken breast. There was an odor of sautéing garlic. Maria, Don Achille’s wife, would put me in the pan of boiling oil, the children would eat me, he would suck my head the way my father did with mullets.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Children
  • Father
  • Football

• Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Science
  • Ignorance

• I think Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner shared the view that they shouldn't be in the business of bailouts, but you know, you're not in the business of bailouts until you frankly think you need to be.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Business

• Making someone laugh is the simplest, most basic positive human connection.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Positive
  • Connection

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

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti