Gottfried De Purucker Quotes & Sayings

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself — Rick Pitino

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident. — Bill Sienkiewicz

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt speech as they appear in the framework of thoughts construed on the model of over speech. — Wilfrid Sellars

Our surface relationships are leaving us increasingly lonely ... We ache for deeper connections as we're blinded by the spotlight of public superficial relationships. We leave someone sitting before us, waiting while we "finish one more thing" on our phone screen. But that's just it; we never seem to finish. A heart without a face looks like any other heart. It's the face to face that tells us if a heart-to-heart is real. — Beth Moore

What are you doing sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself? When life kicks your butt, kick the shit out of it! — Elizabeth A. Reeves

Part of me also knows that this generation is the least racist and most pro-gay, so that's great. But they have a real lack of gravitas. And they have no taste in music. Vampire Weekend? Can we play some music, please? Can we rock out for a minute? Where's your Metallica? — Greg Behrendt

Why do things happen at all? What is it that stops the world simply ... seizing up?"
... "Do you know?"
... "I don't know the answer, no. Sometimes I think it's the only question, and that all the other questions are tributaries that flow into it ... Might the answer be 'love'? — David Mitchell

I couldn't decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist. — Chris Campanioni

A man of reason? A disinterested philosopher? I'd rather be a puppy wagging its tail. — Marty Rubin

Whenever I organize or participate in public protest I get really worried that it will just suck, be really small, embarrassing, and the media will laugh at me. Oftentimes, it is really small and most of the time the media laughs at us. — Rachel Corrie

The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me. — Paul Dano

He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned. — Sargent Shriver