M. Scott Peck Quotes

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

M. Scott Peck

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• I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Greatest

• If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Want
  • Name
  • Charity

• Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Great
  • Live
  • Think

• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Learning
  • Survive
  • Adult

• There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Learned
  • Grateful

• I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Play
  • Unique
  • Trump

• There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Hurt

• Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Yourself
  • Mirror
  • Choice

• Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • Work
  • Company
  • Performance

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Nervous

• There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Environment
  • Dance
  • Creative

• We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Family
  • Human
  • Unity

• I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Time
  • Like
  • Place

• It's a sin to be tired.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Tired
  • Sin

• People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Eye
  • Beauty

• The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Man
  • Powerful
  • Creative

• Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Done
  • Daily

• I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

  

  James M. Barrie
  • Joy
  • Broken
  • Bird

• I call for greater measures to involve more women at higher levels in mine action. Governments should do more to address gender in their mine action programmes and through their implementation of the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Action
  • Gender

• If people only knew the truth about being married to Sylvester Stallone.

  

  Brigitte Nielsen
  • People
  • Truth

• What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless don’t necessarily end up so. That’s the feeling I have, as someone who’s felt this, who’s experienced it.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Value

• The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Different
  • Truth
  • Feeling