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.

M. Scott Peck

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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.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Hindsight

• If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Cricket

• I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Real
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Create
  • Will

• I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Confident

• 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.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Action
  • Day
  • Fall

• I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Enemy
  • Will
  • Worst

• I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Positive

• 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.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• 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.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Age
  • Me
  • King

• I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Family
  • School
  • Culture

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Character
  • Success
  • Said

• It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Feeling
  • Universe
  • Thought

• It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Better

• You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Good
  • Long
  • Learn

• Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People

• I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

  

  Carol Anshaw
  • People
  • Pretty

• I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.

  

  Kevin Garnett
  • Work
  • Perfect

• I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • People
  • Power
  • Running

• In Canada there's an extensive grant system that really allows people to make their work without having to suffer that much, and I'm staring to come around on that, that maybe people don't have to suffer. Maybe you can just not be unhappy and make beautiful music in Canada, maybe that's ok.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Suffering

• When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Suffering
  • Spiritual
  • Growth