M. Scott Peck Quotes

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

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• My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Trying
  • Business

• You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Children
  • Guy
  • Learn

• There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.

  

  Ian Wace
  • People
  • Money
  • Generation

• I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Mind
  • Changes
  • Drink

• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Earth
  • Vote
  • Resolution

• I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Writing
  • Book
  • History

• 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

• No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Language
  • Bible
  • Without

• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Just
  • Director
  • One Thing

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Than

• Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Work
  • Women
  • Everything

• In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

  

  P. D. James
  • People
  • Today
  • Guilty

• I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Game
  • Want
  • Negative

• The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Movie
  • Best
  • Rave

• If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Moving

• I'm on Tumblr all the time.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Tumblr

• It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.

  

  Jon Runyan
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Environment

• I was only in the public eye because I was annoying. You know how neurotic people may ask for one thing when they may really want another thing? It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Attention
  • Neurotic
  • Public Eye

• If a movie is nominated for, say, an Academy award, that movie will instantly become popular in Japan. There's always been a bit of a complex the Japanese have about being taken seriously in the West.

  

  Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • Awards
  • Complexes
  • Academy

• Profitability, growth, and safeguards against existential risks are crucial to strengthening a company's long-term prospects. But if these three factors constitute a company's 'hard power,' firms also need 'soft power': public trust and acceptance, won by fulfilling a company's social responsibility.

  

  Klaus Schwab
  • Long
  • Power
  • Responsibility

• I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Faith
  • Spirit
  • Humor

• Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Forever
  • Growth
  • Spirit