"The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even in the face of clear evidence that shows we are wrong."

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Source : Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.24, Profile Books

Marshall Goldsmith

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“I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.”
“I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.”
“I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.”
“I'm recognizable in certain circles, like girls know me, couples know me. But not all straight men know me.”
“I don't like to get things during the year, .. I like to wait for my birthday or Christmas. I may see something that I'll say, 'I'd really like that for my birthday.' I like to have things to look forward to.”

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“In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. Weâ€™re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. Weâ€™ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.”
“Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.”
“The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.”

Source : Angus Wilson (1963). “The Wild Garden: Or, Speaking of Writing”, p.149, Univ of California Press

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