Road Less Traveled Peck Quotes & Sayings

Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over. — Mary Lou Retton

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. — Samuel Beckett

There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of gods but "bared the miracles." (That is, explained the miracles. - ed.) Oddly enough, we must be satisfied to acknowledge the "miracle" without there being any legitimate way for us to approach it . I am forced to add that just to keep you from thinking that -weakened by age-I have fallen prey to the clergy ... — Albert Einstein

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths-it is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it. — M. Scott Peck

:That's what you do when you love someone." ... "You give all you have to give," he said, "and they do the same. You fill each other up." ... "It doesn't work if it isn't even, though," I said. "If one does all the giving and the other does all the taking — Catherine Gayle

Try and support any kind of hard working artist in some special kind of way -- it might just make their day. — Chris Mentillo

If I talk about my handkerchief, I can, perhaps, produce the object I am referring to out of my pocket. I can't produce the meaning of the expression, " my handkerchief ", out of my pocket. Because Russell confused meaning with mentioning, he thought that if there were any expressions having a uniquely referring use, which were what they seemed (i.e. logical subjects) and not something else in disguise, their meaning must be the particular object which they were used to refer to. Hence the troublesome mythology of the logically proper name. — Peter Frederick Strawson

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow. — M. Scott Peck

No one has all the answers. Fortunately, it is not necessary to have all the answers for good management. — W. Edwards Deming

I haven't always made the right decisions. — George Steinbrenner

With total discipline we can solve all problems. — M. Scott Peck

I like taking parts where I'm like: "I don't know how I'm going to do this exactly but I know I can do it." As opposed to doing something where you go: "There's nothing that I can contribute to this." — Scarlett Johansson

I was not a believer in things just changing. One had to try to change them. — Kathleen Rooney

Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked? You might say
yes, you might say, nature without humanity. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothing has been accomplished. By casting away their responsibility they may feel comfortable with themselves, but they have ceased to solve the problems of living, have ceased to grow spiritually, and have become dead weight for society.

M. Scott Peck. The Road Less Traveled (Kindle Locations 499-501). — M. Scott Peck