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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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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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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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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I never thought I am a stylish. For me, style is always a representation of what you want to wear but doing it in a unique way and expressing yourself. Every girl loves to be stylish.
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India has in fact raced ahead, in ways that are more dazzling and more confusing than America is.
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Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
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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.
