Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

If we become aware of what's happening before we act, behaviour becomes a function of choice rather than a result of an impulse or trigger. You begin to control your world more as opposed to the outside world controlling you.

Marshall Goldsmith

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I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

Otis Rush
- Time
- World
- She
At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.

Walter Rudolf Hess
- Work
- Beginning
- Choice
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

V. S. Naipaul
- Up
- World
- Children
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde
- World
- Books
- Shame
I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.

K. Flay
- World
- Music
- Chaos
In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- World
- Great
- Country