Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

Be happy now. It's a great Western disease that we'll be happy in the future - when we get higher status or that BMW or that promotion or this project finished. Instead, be happy now.

Marshall Goldsmith

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• Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Great
  • City
  • Fighting

• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Important
  • Done

• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Great
  • Book
  • Truth

• Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

  

  Tacitus
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Adversity

• It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

  

  Banksy
  • Up
  • Great
  • Museum

• I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Think

• We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Home
  • Future
  • Space

• I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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  • Sweet
  • Bird

• I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.

  

  Halsey
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Saying

• I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Style

• My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

  

  W. C. Fields
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  • Husband
  • Devil

• What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Future
  • Problem

• Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Time
  • Work
  • Happy

• When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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  • Great
  • Business

• I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Future
  • Today
  • Prepare

• I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Women
  • Love
  • Know

• Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Great
  • Together
  • Earth

• I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

  

  David Walliams
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  • Happy
  • Alone

• I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Think
  • Death
  • Rest

• Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
  • People
  • Improvement

• I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

  

  August Wilson
  • People
  • Work

• Be happy now. It's a great Western disease that we'll be happy in the future - when we get higher status or that BMW or that promotion or this project finished. Instead, be happy now.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Future