Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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• I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Hate
  • Movies
  • Scared

• When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Mother

• The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Different
  • Writing

• I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Depression
  • Bed

• When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Thinking
  • Intelligence
  • Improvement

• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Me
  • Literature
  • Nervous

• I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Moving
  • Film
  • Touch

• If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Thought

• Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Working

• That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Character
  • Know
  • Like

• Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • World
  • Today
  • College

• A goal properly set is halfway reached.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Goal
  • Halfway
  • Properly

• I used to teach dance lessons.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Dance
  • Teach
  • Used

• It's amazing to be able to work with people right at the top of whatever they do... inspiring photographers and stylists with very interesting visual language. The more I do it, the more I enjoy it.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Story

• I can apply myself to the format of 'SNL,' I can apply myself to the format of 'Conan,' but at the same time, I'm still being J. B. Smoove. I'm not changing up my style, I'm not changing up how I think, what's funny to me, my delivery, the way I carry myself.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • Time
  • Funny

• Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• I hate the PC, with a passion.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Hate
  • Passion

• I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Age
  • Wanted
  • Nine

• My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone back and paid more attention.

  

  Eliza Doolittle
  • Music
  • School
  • Attention

• I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.

  

  Chuck Hagel
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.

  

  Kendrick Meek
  • Important
  • Health
  • Focus

• When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti