Marshall Goldsmith Quotes
The Great Western Disease is that we fixate on the future at the expense of enjoying the life we're living now.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.
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Look, I think the notion that there's a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.
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I've nothing against stay-at-home mums, but I love going to work, I love what I do and I wouldn't want to start resenting my home life if I was staying home 365 days a year.
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You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.
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What we've done as a country is, we've said we owe it to our citizens to know who is traveling here and if they intend to do us harm.
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The Great Western Disease is that we fixate on the future at the expense of enjoying the life we're living now.
