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Werner Erhard

(1935) Computer Scientist United States

80 quotes in 311 categories

Werner Erhard is a computer scientist from the United States, best known for Rechnerarchitektur: Einführung und Grundlagen.

Quick Facts About Werner Erhard

Born: September 5, 1935
Nationality: United States
Profession: Computer Scientist
Notable works: Rechnerarchitektur: Einführung und Grundlagen

About Werner Erhard

Werner Hans Erhard is an American author and lecturer who founded Erhard Seminars Training (est), a course of personal and social transformation, which was offered from 1971 to 1984. In 1985, Erhard replaced est with a newly designed and updated program called the Forum. Since 1991, the Forum has been kept up to date and offered by Landmark Education.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Werner Erhard

What I recognized is that you can't put it together. It's already together, and what you have to do is experience it…

Being together

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Consider that all accomplishment is constituted by a series of resolved breakdowns.

Accomplishment

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Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.

Agreement

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Life is a game. In order to have a game, something has to be more important than something else. If what already…

Games

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Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.

Being

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The quickest way to be happy is to choose what you already have.

Funny

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Living is really pretty simple. Living happens right now; it doesn't happen back then, and it doesn't happen out there. Living is…

Life

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What most people do is give space to people's quality and deal with their garbage. Actually, you should do it the other…

Deals

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Self expression is a function of responsibility.

Expression

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The world is perfect the way it is.

Catholic

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If you could really accept that you weren't ok, you could stop proving you were ok. If you could stop proving that…

Accepting

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Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic

Attention

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You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference - to be of genuine…

Consequence

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There is something I do not know, the knowing of which could change everything.

Change

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If you keep saying it the way it really is, eventually your word is law in the universe.

Inspirational

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Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

Accepting

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There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics.

Inspirational

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But that is like saying that the hole in the sand looks like the stick that you made the hole in the…

Holes

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When you've said all of the bad things and all of the good things you haven't been saying, you will find that…

Bad thing

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Integrity (in our model) is not about good or bad, or right or wrong, or what should or should not be.

Inspirational

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One creates from nothing. If you try to create from something you're just changing something. So in order to create something you…

Able

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Transformation is the shift of the principle which orients the person’s life, which is ordinarily the principle of gaining satisfaction. Essentially what…

Change

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The Truth, believed, is a lie.

Inspirational

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If you stand in the rain, you get wet, whether you understand water or not.

Inspirational

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Whatever you are pushing against, you are stuck to.

Inspirational

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Werner Erhard by topic

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