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.M. Scott Peck
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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.
Parker Stevenson -
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.
Gaby Hoffmann -
If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
Brown Campbell -
I don't get bothered by fans.
J. J. Watt -
I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
Gary Clark Jr. -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
Zach LaVine -
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.
A. E. van Vogt -
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.
Taron Egerton -
He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Orison Swett Marden -
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.
Harry Caray -
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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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.
Natasha Trethewey -
No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
Zola Jesus -
The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
Oscar de la Renta -
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.
Natalie Wood -
I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
Dale Earnhardt -
I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
Washed Out
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I never want to be the woman that's telling other women what to do.
Lauren Mayberry Chvrches -
We are not there yet, but I'd be disappointed if in two years' time there was not some movement towards truth as a precursor to reconciliation.
Paddy Ashdown -
It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.
Douglas Coupland -
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
Elizabeth I -
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.
M. Scott Peck