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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In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.
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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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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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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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As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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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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Movie-making is an extreme sport on many levels. It requires stamina such as I had never imagined.
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Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.
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The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.
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If we habitually focus on how to improve things that are already great, can you see how this spirit can transform ourselves, our organizations, families and communities?
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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.
