M. Scott Peck Quotes
When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
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You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.
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When I first went to work... I had over me an impetuous, hustling man. It was necessary for me to be up to the top notch to give satisfaction. I worked faster than I otherwise would have done, and to him I attribute the impetus that I acquired.
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Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.
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I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.
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Good news is not news. Bad news sells. Confrontation sells. And that's what the press is always looking for. I'm not bragging, but I have the highest job-approval rating of any public official in the city. And I've had it consistently. The approval rating for the police department is 70 percent. This notion that stop-and-frisk has torn the community apart is false.
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When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
