"Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance."

-- Atul Gawande

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“I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class.”
“We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....”
“I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.”
“Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.”

Source : Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “Works”, p.243
“How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.”

Source : "The correspondence of Daniel O'Connell, Vol. II". Book by Daniel O'Connell, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Letter N. 700, 1972.
“For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.”
“Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.”

Source : On preparation for the Paris Peace Conference, November 1918.
“Things are going well in Germany because the economy is booming and as an export-driven nation, we are profiting from the fact that we have an excellent, high-performing SME sector. But if we want things to continue to go well into the future, then we have to break up the antiquated structures in some areas and really modernize.”

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