M. Scott Peck Quotes
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.
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I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.
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Under HB 2655, the state is responsible to ensure parents are aware of the purpose and value of assessments and receive notice from their local school districts about their rights and obligations. Educators must engage with parents about the value of assessment and the potential consequences if parents opt out and student participation diminishes.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.
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I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.
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Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.
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We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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Yes! I know what I have to face. I have to face a coalition. The combination may be successful. A coalition has before this been successful. But coalitions, although successful, have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. This too I know, that England does not love coalitions.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
