Marshall Goldsmith Quotes
In our world, we have this huge focus on vicarious living - politicians, movie stars, athletes, coaches, all these people. What our research has shown very clearly is that people who are really happier and have more meaningful lives are people that focus on living their own lives.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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We need a national focus on increasing the sustainable growth rate of our economy.
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Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.
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I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.
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I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
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In our world, we have this huge focus on vicarious living - politicians, movie stars, athletes, coaches, all these people. What our research has shown very clearly is that people who are really happier and have more meaningful lives are people that focus on living their own lives.
