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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The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
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We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.
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I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.
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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.
