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Werner Erhard

(1935) Computer Scientist United States

80 quotes in 311 categories

Werner Erhard says life is already whole and we just need to experience it. He points out that success comes from fixing breakdowns and keeping our agreements. He also reminds us that happiness is found by appreciating what we already have and living in the present moment.

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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.

Quotes by Werner Erhard

Create your future from your future, not your past.

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The essence of communication is intention.

Communication

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The world is perfect the way it is.

Catholic

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“Ride the horse in the direction it's going.”

Direction

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Whatever you are pushing against, you are stuck to.

Inspirational

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Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.

Agreement

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The Truth, believed, is a lie.

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Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

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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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Maturity is doing whatever you want, even if your parents want the same thing.

Aging

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

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You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. --Werner Erhard

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Discovery

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You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

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Just like the front and the back of the hand, being and action are distinct yet inseparable.

Action

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

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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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Life is a ripoff when you expect to get what you want. Life works when you choose what you got. Actually what…

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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…

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I have a lot of respect for L. Ron Hubbard and I consider him to be a genius and perhaps less acknowledged…

Funny

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Your life and my life have turned out, and once you get that, life goes on from a position of having turned…

Football

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Honoring your word is also the route to creating whole and complete social and working relationships. In addition, it provides an actionable…

Creating

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There are all kinds of futures. There is a hoped-for future, there is a feared future, there is a predictable future, and…

Afterlife

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Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One…

Action

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Oversimplifying somewhat, honoring your word as we define it means you either keep your word (do what you said you would do…

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Life is already together, and what you have to experience is experiencing it being together. The striving to put it together is…

Being together

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In this conversation we discover another possibility: living in a way, now, moment to moment, that makes a difference to life. We…

Being human

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It is important that you get clear for yourself that your only access to impacting life is action. The world does not…

Action

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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…

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Participation: What I intend to create is the opportunity for people to participate in the transformation of people. For me it is…

Change

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The problems we have now in communities and societies are going to be resolved only when we are brought together by a…

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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…

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In life, understanding is the booby prize.

Inspirational

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Health is a function of participation.

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Ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

Direction

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What is is and what isn't ain't.

Funny

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Self expression is a function of responsibility.

Expression

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At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.

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The only two things in our lives are aliveness and patterns that block our aliveness.

Aliveness

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Even the truth, when believed, is a lie. You must experience the truth, not believe it.

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Werner Erhard by topic

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