M. Scott Peck Quotes
Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.
Quotes to Explore
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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Bullies always have another target.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.
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It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity.
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The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.
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In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.
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Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.
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Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.
