Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not take you there.

Marshall Goldsmith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: coach
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1949

Topics

FuturePastUnderstandingYouWill

I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.

Jerry Goldsmith

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Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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I do think the BBC could do more, but I've always thought the BBC could do more - I think there should be more arts programmes full stop.

Melvyn Bragg

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I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

John Milius

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I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.

Stefon Harris

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Certainly, writing a book was challenging. It took me a long time to learn how to do it. It took me seven years to get a sense of how to wean myself off the process and trickery of songwriting. You realize that giant metaphors work in songs because you have so few words. Standing alone on a page, they threaten to be overblown in a hurry.

Rodney Crowell

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You're always starting with a nugget of truth, whether it's a song or an improv scene.

Matt Besser

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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Douglas Coupland

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I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

Doug Liman

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I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.

Donald Driver

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Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.

Chris Cornell

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So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

David Strathairn

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