Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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When I am going out, I am in ponytail, jeans, tees. I am just like any girl-next-door. Beauty is not external; it's internal. When you are a happy soul, you would be beautiful any time.
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Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.
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Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
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The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.
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The child is not mine as the first was,I cannot sing it to rest,I cannot lift it up fatherlyAnd bliss it upon my breast;Yet it lies in my little one's cradleAnd sits in my little one's chair,And the light of the heaven she's gone toTransfigures its golden hair.
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It is, in other words, time for a national oil change. That is apparent to anyone who has looked at our national dipstick.
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Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?
