M. Scott Peck Quotes

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

M. Scott Peck

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• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Work
  • She
  • Earth

• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Dark

• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
  • Want
  • Celebrity

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Nature
  • Today
  • Garden

• There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Parent
  • Coffee

• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • School
  • Film
  • Student

• My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Stop

• If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Believe
  • Brain
  • Thoughts

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, though. I didn't realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Difficult
  • Horror
  • Terrified

• I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Day
  • Research

• The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Life
  • Body
  • Human

• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Influence

• I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Character
  • Hurt
  • Villain

• I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Victory
  • Lose
  • Underdog

• I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • God
  • Mind
  • Free

• It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • Character
  • Pretty

• Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing.

  

  Leila Janah
  • House

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • God
  • Growing
  • Goal