"I've coached people who were ranked number one in the country but didn't get any support while other areas of sport got medium to full funding, even though the individuals had no hope of getting on to the rostrum."

“History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.”

“People digest and process music differently, and I'm sure that was the case even when I was a kid.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“Girl, when he gives you kisses twain, use one, and let the other stay; And hoard it, for moons die, red fades, and you may need a kiss—some day.”

Source : Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

“Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.”

“You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.”

“Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority - can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.”

“The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning,”

“To me the church's problem would be a hundred times worse if you felt everyone has written the church off, they don't want to know, there just aren't people to turn to. But it's exactly the opposite: there are such people. We have to find a way in our organizational life to get out of their way, clear the path to find more of these people, and empower them.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org