M. Scott Peck Quotes
Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.
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Great men marry great women.
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The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.
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We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.
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I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.
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I walked out of 'Harry and the Hendersons.' Harry bugged me; I don't know. Yeah, it's weird because I think Sasquatches are great, but not then. Maybe not that weekend - I don't know. I don't know what it was.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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Duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.
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While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.
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I think publicly declaring that mistakes are a part of how we grow and how we heal is absolutely necessary.
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The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.
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Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.
