M. Scott Peck Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

  M. Scott Peck

  Giving, Listening, Important

• An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.

  M. Scott Peck

  Giving Up, Shoes, Discipline

• The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life.

  M. Scott Peck

  Life, Giving Up, Journey

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

• Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

  M. Scott Peck

  Mean, Responsibility, Organization

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

• I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

  M. Scott Peck

  Time, Stress, Two

  M. Scott Peck (2009). “A World Waiting to Be Born: Civility Rediscovered”, p.81, Bantam

• The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Giving, Growth, Attention

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

• Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.

  M. Scott Peck

  Children, Discipline, Giving

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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