George Gurdjieff Quotes

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

There are no signposts in the sea.

I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

I'm lucky I had signposts in my life. At important times, I got pointed in the right direction by particular circumstances.

You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? - By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for.

You can choose a direction that will take you into something that isn't going to take you where you want to go, or you can choose another direction which is down the right pathway.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

A movement without a vision is a movement without moral foundation.

Not just whether but how we find our way truly matters.

When you're growing up, you need to stay around people who are headed in the right direction and stay away from people who will take you in the wrong direction.

I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

Principles are the territory. Values are maps.

Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

Direction determines destination.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.

My father is a marvelous mentor, and if you're going to have a mentor, the ones that work best let you make your own mistakes. You're ready to do your own thing and just at that moment of being unbridled, if somebody's trying to manage you too tightly, it's going to be tough - particularly if that person's got the same last name.

I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'

When you are in the line of your duty, it is like standing in front of a line of posts, and every post is in line. But step one step aside, and every post looks as though it were not quite in line. The farther you get away from that straight line, the more crooked the posts will appear. It is the straight and narrow path of duty that will lead you and me back to the presence of God.

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.

I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.