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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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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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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It would be fantastic to spend your whole life trying to pursue something and then finally, at the last moment, you achieve it. You know, instead of getting it in the middle of the pursuit and spending the second half giving it meaning.
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I've had fans do some pretty awesome things... I once had a fan do a mock proposal for me in Mumbai, inside a McDonalds... and I've had fans give me some precious things. I had one fan give me her mother's ring; I've gotten some pretty intense stuff. And I always get drawings and scrapbooks from fans, which is also pretty cool.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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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.
