M. Scott Peck Quotes
An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.
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Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
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It is the world's limitations and the myths that we internalize about ourselves that pushes us to diminish our power and ignore it.
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There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.
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Every time I get a role, I'm surprised. It's like, 'Alright, when am I going to stop fooling them?'
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An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.
