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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Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought somebody the wrong size.
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Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples.
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I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.
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Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.
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Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that's when you start looking at business in a different way.
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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.
