S:1465 Quote: Right
(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “The only obligationwhich I have a right to assumeis to do at any timewhat I think right.” Henry David Thoreau Coaching Point: This quote can be viewed from two directions. Perhaps the classic or at least more common way is to see it as a flag for […]
S:1463 Quote: Imagine
(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Sometimes it is the peoplewho no one imagines anything ofwho do the thingsthat no one can imagine.” Said about Alan Turing Coaching Point: Turing was the creator of the first complete specification of an electronic stored-program all-purpose digital computer. Standing on the shoulders of the work of […]
S:1460 Quote: Everything
(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Americans always do the right thing,after they’ve tried everything else.” Winston Churchill Coaching Point: Churchill was a friend and fan of America. His comment was not intended as a ‘knock’ against it, rather an observation of how the USA processes and progresses. But his view has a […]
S:1455 Quote: Dreams
(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Dreams are not so different from deeds as some may think.All the deeds of men are only dreams at first.And in the end, their deeds dissolve into dreams.”and“If you will it, it is no dream;and if you do not will it,a dream it is and a dream […]
S:1452 Quote: Learning Lessons
(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you’re defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to […]
S:1449 Quote: Pilots
(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Pilots are a rare kind of human.They leave the ordinary surface of the world,to purify their soul in the sky,and they come down to earth,only after receiving the communion of the infinite.” Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra Coaching Point: Pilots know this about flying. It exists for others […]
S:1446 Quote: Children and Scientists
(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “… children are innate scientists, probing, puttering, experimenting with the possible and impossible in a confused local universe. Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of […]
S:1441 Quote: Freedom
(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “He spoke of very simple things—that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.”and“The only true law is […]
S:1439 Quote: At Once
(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “The wise does at oncewhat the fool does at last.” Old Jewish saying Coaching Point: I have a history of being a procrastinator. There, I’ve admitted it. And has it cost me over the years! Missed opportunities, missed relationships, missed rewards, I’ve missed-the-boat so many times by […]
S:1437 Quote: Discover
(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Everything I have discoveredI was longing for.” Jamie Beck Coaching Point: There is power in this quote. In two parts. First, she expresses an attitude of discovery. Embedded within is curiosity, a leaning into. Discovery is action. Almost always a positive, uplifting, energizing action. Taking in, taking […]
