"Mentoring is all about people - it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated - concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster."

“I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.”

“Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.”

Source : Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.72, Profile Books

“The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.”

“A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.”

“MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.”

“True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.”

“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

“Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.”