Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

The last thing I say on most phone calls is not, 'Goodbye,' but, 'Thank you.'

Marshall Goldsmith

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• It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Brain

• Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Always
  • Bigger
  • Goodbye

• I find it's really hard for anybody to meet anyone. I'm not big on dates anyways. I still have to work that out.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Work
  • Find
  • Meet

• There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Death
  • Dad
  • Car

• If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.

  

  Val McDermid
  • You
  • Goodbye
  • Prizes

• Then Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh walked hand in hand down the forest path and they said goodbye. So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Together
  • Hand
  • Boy

• The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it: Will you go out with me? I think I like you. I care for you. I love you. Marry me. Goodbye.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Important
  • Words
  • Goodbye

• When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Party

• Never say goodbye, You say tomorrow's another day, All I know is we're here today. I've got nightmares I could never share with you, The kind that keeps me up all night. So hold me tight till the room is light And tell me that it's all right.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Up
  • Today
  • Night

• Childish and altogether ludicrous is what you yourself are and all philosophers; and if a grown-up man like me spends fifteen minutes with fools of this kind, it is merely a way of passing the time. I've now got more important things to do. Goodbye!

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• I love acting, but I am a mom, and the roles just weren't coming because of a mixture of things: because I'm not ambitious, and because I'm older, and I had a baby. I really felt like I had said a graceful and completely happy goodbye to acting in a significant way. And I had sort of made my peace with that.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Happy
  • Peace
  • Mom

• I've always known if anything killed me, it would be boys. From the time I was a teenager into my thirties, I loved only the ones who were bad news.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Teenager

• There's a children's book by Anthony Browne called 'The Tunnel' that I've always loved.

  

  Billy Howle
  • Children
  • Book

• Apparently, my grandfather left from Cork to America without saying goodbye to his mother! The family in Longford is still not happy about that.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Family
  • America
  • Happy

• I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father.

  

  Alexi Giannoulias
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Past

• What part of 9/11 is big? If the future continues to reinterpret the past, it could be argued that 9/11 provides irrefutable proof that unless there is some other way that we learn to deal with our technology or deal with our brothers and sisters, it is goodbye as a species. That genie does not leave that bottle.

  

  David Milch
  • Future
  • Past
  • Technology

• I’d been prepared for the goodbyes—as prepared as anyone could be, I guess—but I wasn’t at all prepared for a hello.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Goodbye
  • Prepared
  • Hello

• Every industry has standards. For example, the motion picture camera, there are 2 or 3 film formats with a number of brackets and number of speed, a shooting speed that is standard. If we didn't have that, then some motion pictures will play back too slowly, and people would talk very slowly, and it will be bizarre.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • People
  • Picture

• I never really cared about what I looked like.

  

  Gemma Ward

• Jack, stop telling people you're Ozzy Osbourne's son to get into places, you're a fucking loser!

  

  Kelly Osbourne
  • People
  • Stop
  • Son

• In spite of the many initiatives our society offers to help and support, recovery can be such a monumental task that some give up. They withdraw into themselves. Not least during Christmas and New Year is it hard to feel left out. Tonight my thoughts are with them.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Up
  • Help
  • Society

• The last thing I say on most phone calls is not, 'Goodbye,' but, 'Thank you.'

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • Goodbye