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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The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.
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As an actor and an audience member, it's important to remember that the future will further define the meaning of the present with a show like 'Once Upon A Time.' Sometimes we're just collecting dots, and other times we're connecting them, but you know that the dots that are collected will eventually get connected.
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It was easy to be the bad guy throughout.
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I think as a pregnant woman we're all looking for stuff that makes us all look cute and fashionable and feel sexy when we're pregnant.
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I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.
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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.
