Marshall Goldsmith Quotes
If we really want to make change, we have to make peace with the fact that we cannot self-exempt every time the calendar offers us a more attractive alternative.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'
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Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.
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Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'
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We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.
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If we really want to make change, we have to make peace with the fact that we cannot self-exempt every time the calendar offers us a more attractive alternative.
