M. Scott Peck Quotes
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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My dad had given my sister and I our starter car, a red, old 1985 Chevy Blazer. It was so beat up, the taillights would fall off, and we would use red duct tape.
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The indwelling presence and power of the Spirit are to be sought and received by faith in God's word of promise.
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The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
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After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
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Since Pharaoh’s bits were pushed into the jaws of kings, these dyings-patient or impatient, but dyings-have happened, by the hundreds of millions; they were all wasted. They taught us to kill others and to die ourselves, but never how to live. Who is 'taught to live' by cruelty, suffering, stupidity, and that occupational disease of soldiers, death?
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We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
