Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

One of the most dysfunctional beliefs of successful people is our contempt for simplicity and structure. We believe that we are above needing structure to help us on seemingly simple tasks.

Marshall Goldsmith

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• I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

  

  Nate Silver
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• More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

  

  K. Flay
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  • Nothing

• Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
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• When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

  

  Becky G
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• I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

  

  Nanette Lepore
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• There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Great
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• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
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• I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Color
  • Bold
  • Pink

• Making music is fantastic.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Music
  • Making
  • Fantastic

• 'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Live
  • Kids
  • motivation

• I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Giving
  • Feeling
  • Tension

• Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Garden

• I don't want to hear about my death.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Want
  • Death
  • Hear

• First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Always
  • First
  • Immigrants

• Kids, don't be too big to accept advice.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Kids
  • Advice
  • Accept

• I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Connection
  • Same

• I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Great
  • Children

• I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Life

• You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.

  

  Jet Li
  • Different
  • Tiger

• If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Chance
  • Jump
  • Role

• I wanted to write an upbeat song where I could feel good about the fact that I've moved around so much and not sad about all the goodbyes I've had to face.

  

  Alice Merton
  • Song
  • Feel
  • Write

• One of the most dysfunctional beliefs of successful people is our contempt for simplicity and structure. We believe that we are above needing structure to help us on seemingly simple tasks.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
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