7 Quotes & Sayings By Simon Cheshire

Simon Cheshire is an award winning personal development coach and lecturer. He has been a driving force in the British Personal Development movement since 1999. He has a growing international reputation for his vibrant presentations, which are constantly evolving to reflect the latest developments in personal growth and learning theory. He is a prolific author, with four best-selling books to his credit, including Conversations with Simon Cheshire, from Hay House.

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On my website there's a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind." I've always found that inspiring because the written word, as an art form, is unlike any other: movies, TV, music, they're shared experiences, but books aren't like that. The relationship between a writer and a reader is utterly unique to those two individuals. The world that forms in your head as you read a book will be slightly different to that experienced by every other reader. Anywhere. Ever. Reading is very personal, a communication from one mind to another, something which can't be exactly copied, or replicated, or directly shared. If I read the work of, say, one of the great Victorian novelists, it's like a gift from the past, a momentary connection to another's thoughts. Their ideas are down on paper, to be picked up by me, over a century later. Writers can speak individually to readers across a year, or ten years, or a thousand. That's why I love books. Simon Cheshire
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Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist. Simon Cheshire
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You can't be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan. Simon Cheshire
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I suppose what I mean is, I never felt like I was part of a gang. No, that's the wrong word. Part of a MOVEMENT! That's it. It feels like there's a swirling, shining wind of change sweeping right at you, sweeping over everyone, and you're inside it. It feels like there is something that transcends you, that goes beyond whatever you are, that is great and whole and good. Great, because when it all comes together it's so much more than all its individual pieces. Whole because you're part of it and if you weren't, then both you and it would be diminished. Good because at its core is pure talent and skill, like you know you'll never have yourself. Simon Cheshire
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Gran follows recipes by looking at picture–to the eye, delicious; to the tongue, boiled socks. Makes you wanna cry really. Simon Cheshire
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How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it? Simon Cheshire