Quotes

S:1403 Quote: Slip Slidin’ Away

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “. . . .We’re workin’ our jobsCollect our payBelieve we’re gliding down the highwayWhen in fact we’re slip slidin’ away Slip slidin’ awaySlip slidin’ awayYou know the nearer your destinationThe more you’re slip slidin’ away” Paul Simon – writer and singer Coaching Point: Some, maybe most believe …
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S:1397 Quote: Life

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Boy if you get up every morning for two weeks in a row and don’t want to go do what you’re about to go do well, you need to change something.” Jack Straus – My father (‘Pop’) Coaching Point: At the tender age I first …
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S:1393 Quote: Language

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” Ludwig Wittgenstein – Austrian-British philosopher Coaching Point: Life is to be lived not simply described. The person who has a greater way to express life lives it more fully. It’s true we go through life seeing …
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S:1387 Quote: Silence and Voices

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “It’s easy to live in silence, she thought;what I could not do is live with these voices.” Ursula K. Le Guin Coaching Point: The character in the story was an old woman living alone in a remote cabin in a war-decimated land. As her story unfolded we …
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S:1381 Quote: Taken and Abides

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Though much is taken, much abides . . .” Alfred Lord Tennyson Coaching Point: This is the first little bit from a longer, and more often fully quoted, Tennyson poem. Brevity – that which is meaningful, powerful, and brief – these few words are a good reminder. …
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S:1378 Quote: Mistakes, Loud

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “A choir director I had when I was in school used to say, ‘When you’re singing, I want you to make your mistakes loud. I don’t want you to mumble through a passage because you’re worried about being heard making a mistake. Make‘em loud so I can …
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S:1375 Quote: Running Away

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “It was not so much that I was running away from something—I was running into myself.” Michael Singer Coaching Point: Running away. We learn to run away at an early age, an effective self-preservation technique. When a parent used our full name – and that certain tone …
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S:1369 Quote: Pride

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Greatness brings pride,pride brings catastrophe,and the proud don’t listen.” George Friedman Coaching Point: It’s not immutable that the sequence plays out that way every time. One can own one’s own greatness humbly, lightly. You are great, you know. You are. It’s just that most don’t see it …
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S:1364 Quote: Thinking

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.) “Reading without thinking is as nothing, for no book is as important for what it says as for what it makes you think.” Louis L’Amour – from his personal notes (and used in his book The Walking Drum) Coaching Point: This has always been the impetus behind …
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S:1361 Quote: The Happiness Illusion

(Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement or enlightenment.) “The illusion is that we all thought the source of happiness is something outside ourselves, that something outside ourselves has the power to make us happy. However, the minute we give away our power and project it outside ourselves, we are in a negative energy field and …
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