“The Great Western Disease is that we fixate on the future at the expense of enjoying the life we're living now.”
Source: What Got You Here Won't Get You There, 2008, p. 81 (2010 edition)
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Marshall Goldsmith 8
American author of leadership and management literature 1949Related quotes

Mir schien: Ausgesprochene Unlust, mich über Dinge des praktischen Lebens, Zukunft, Daten, Politik zu unterhalten. Man ist an die intellektuelle Sphäre gebannt wie manchmal Besessene auf die sexuelle, ist von ihr angesaugt.
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The World Wildlife Fund Congress, London, (1970)
The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962–77 (1978)
Context: It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.

1960s, Keep Moving From This Mountain (1965)
Context: Each of us lives in two realms, the "within" and the "without." The within of our lives is somehow found in the realm of ends, the without in the realm of means. The within of our [lives], the bottom — that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion for which at best we live. The without of our lives is that realm of instrumentalities, techniques, mechanisms by which we live. Now the great temptation of life and the great tragedy of life is that so often we allow the without of our lives to absorb the within of our lives. The great tragedy of life is that too often we allow the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live.

“We had great sex, but we argued politics. […] Now we enjoy politics and argue sex.”
This Is Not Going to Be Pretty, Live at the Bottom Line (1995), Safe Sex

“If you think research is expensive, try disease”
Source: The Lasker Legacy http://www.laskerfoundation.org/about/lasker-legacy/
“And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.”
Source: A Ring of Endless Light

"Secret O' Life"
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