Famous quotes containing the words gurdjieff and/or taught:
“A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.”
—George Gurdjieff (c. 1877–1949)
“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.”
—Mario Cuomo (b. 1932)