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• When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.

  Brad Pitt

  Art, Class, Littles

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead.

  Joan Larkin

  Growing, Lows, Awake

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I hated motivators - never been a motivator. Motivation is like a warm bath, and you should take a bath probably, but you need more than that; you need strategy. I was a strategist, but nobody responded to that, so I was, like, "OK, what am I? I'm a coach. I'm not a guru." As an athlete, I had great coaches, and I was a better athlete than many of them, but they still were better than I was as a coach because they could see when I couldn't see. I thought, that's great, because I'm not better than anybody, but I do have the skills that I can help people.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivation, Athlete, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Soil, Common

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• I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared -- myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Teacher, Love Is, Silence

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• I dont like the idea of spirituality done the way its done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.

  M.I.A.

  Creativity, Ideas, Work Out

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• Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Goal, Target

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2006.

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• The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Freedom, Inspire, Can Do

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• There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru, the gap-toothed docent with a serious thing for Whistler's Mother. There will be others, newervillagers than yourself, who never stood a chance either. Only through them do you stand any hope of tracing your footsteps back to where you began.

  Daniel Levin Becker

  Mother, Jobs, Serious Things

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• We are, every one of us, like a wise guru in charge of a mental patient.

  Jamie Catto

  Wise, Patient

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• Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us.

  Shari Arison

  Powerful, Government, Hands

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• I had a massive heart attack, and in my belief that I was close to dying, I took the opportunity to teach my son about death. That lesson increased his faith in such a way that he completely accepted all the changes that life brings us. He learned that only the present exists. From that moment on, he began living in the present time, knowing that the future is just a possibility, and without believing all the opinions from the past. He understood that there are no guides, or masters. Each one of us is our own guru, and we can only save ourselves.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Believe, Heart, Son

  "Wisdom Keeping Traditions of don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose". Interview with Kala Ambrose, www.exploreyourspirit.com.

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• I think people are always looking for gurus. It's the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It's quite terrifying. I once saw something fascinating here in New York. It must have been in the early seventies--guru time. A man used to go and sit in Central Park, wearing elaborate golden robes. He never once opened his mouth, he just sat. He'd appear at lunchtime. People appeared from everywhere, because he was obviously a holy man, and this went on for months. They just sat around him in reverent silence. Eventually he got fed up with it and left. Yes. It's as easy as that.

  Doris Lessing

  New York, Men, Thinking

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• In Zen we have no gurus.

  Frederick Lenz

  Masters, Zen Master

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• You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they're nasty. They're egocentric. They don't have a deep regard or understanding of what life is. It's just a little trick they can do, a one-trick pony.

  Frederick Lenz

  Understanding, India, Ponies

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• Although he reputedly hated the label of 'guru', Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet seen. In 1996, the McKinsey Quarterly journal described him as the 'the one guru to whom other gurus kowtow' and Robert Heller described him as 'the greatest man in the history of management', praise indeed for a man who described himself as 'just an old journalist'.

  Peter Drucker

  Men, Labels, World

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• When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.

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  Ram Dass

  Giving, Command

  "Ram Dass, Spiritual Teacher, Talks Soul, Spirit And Accepting Change With Origin Magazine". ORIGIN Magazine interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2013.

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• The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.

  Bhagat Singh

  Country, Dawn, Cost

  "Trials of Independence" by B. R. Agarwala, National Book Trust, India, (p. 128), 1991.

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• It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  People, Advice, Would Be

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Love Over Scotland”, p.18, Anchor

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• The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Engineering, Long, People

  "Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. November 28, 2000.

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• In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Taken, Dark, Midnight

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.35, Weiser Books

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• One may have many teachers, but only one guru, who remains as one's guru even in many different lives, until the disciple reaches the final goal of emancipation in God. You must remember this, once that relationship is formed.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Teacher, Goal, Different

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• Those who worship and adore the Lord through the Guru's Word forget all their pain and suffering.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Pain, Suffering, Worship

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• Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Rip, Mean

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• Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her going in prison: "Soon all the humans will be dead," she said, droning in the time-honored fashion of gurus everywhere. "And then Opal will be loved." And even if I'm not loved, she thought, at least all the humans will be dead.

  Eoin Colfer

  Fashion, Killing Someone, Opal

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