Marshall Goldsmith Quotes
A leader who is self-aware enough to know that he or she is not adept at everything is one who has taken the first step toward being a great leader.
Quotes to Explore
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I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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It is not possible to design a laboratory resource allocation experiment without designing an institution in all its detail.
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Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio.
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My mother was the strength. She was the anchor. She was a preacher and a teacher.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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A leader who is self-aware enough to know that he or she is not adept at everything is one who has taken the first step toward being a great leader.
