John Whitmore Quotes

#1. True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there.-Kyoko

Natsuki Takaya

#2. We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Orson Welles

#3. You'll always be beautiful to me, no matter how old you are, and you can remind me of that when you're ninety, because if I'm still around I know I'll still feel the same.'
-Forgotten, Susan Lewis

Susan Lewis

#4. But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.

Plato

#5. I believe that you have to treat the people who work with you like your family.

Carolina Herrera

#6. Now Dave Eggers, if you lived in San Francisco, is not an easy person to be done with. Everyone - and by everyone, I mean every white person with a college education and an interest in books - wants a piece of him. It's not just his amazingly powerful prose; it's also his charitable works.

James Bernard Frost

#7. Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.

John Whitmore

#8. The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys.

John Whitmore

#9. Probems must be resolved at the level beneath the one at which they occur.

John Whitmore

#10. Homer is right: "Bad is the lordship of many; let one be your ruler and master." For such a man law would be rather an instrument than a limit: "for men of eminent ability there is no law - they are themselves a law.

Will Durant

#11. It is human choices that move events.

George W. Bush

#12. I miss being a student," said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours among the books.

Helen Simonson

#13. As with any new skill, attitude, style, or belief, adopting a coaching ethos requires commitment, practice, and some time before it flows naturally and its effectiveness is optimized.

John Whitmore

#14. His view of war - and he had seen a great deal of it - was that a general made as many blunders as he fought battles, but, by the grace of the gods, the opposing generals' blunders were sometimes worse.

Aubrey Menen

#15. I am able to control only that which I am aware of. That which I am unaware of controls me. Awareness empowers me.

John Whitmore

#16. Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your life based on what's right or wrong ...

Ross Perot

#17. Sometimes i think there must be a sort of pollen of ideas floating in the air, which fertilizes similarly minds here and there which have not had direct contact.

William Faulkner

#18. Time is a series of fluctuating variables.

Terence McKenna

#19. Man is a god in ruins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. Learning to create is essential, necessary, vital & fundamental. It is the centrepiece in which you create the life that you really want

John Whitmore

#21. He wore binoculars around his neck the way librarians wear their glasses.

Jane Hamilton