M. Scott Peck Quotes
The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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As much as you try to organize your life, life will surprise you.
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I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
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It is very difficult to talk about plagiarism in terms of themes between novels. Otherwise there wouldn't be that many novels written because everyone feeds off everybody else.
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The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring.
