Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

If somebody is going in the wrong direction, behavioral coaching just helps them get there faster. It doesn't turn the wrong direction into the right direction.

Marshall Goldsmith

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• This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Business
  • Numbers
  • Investing

• In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Small
  • Always
  • Enjoy

• In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

  

  Sallust
  • Live
  • Art
  • May

• I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Today
  • Reality
  • Everybody

• I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me yet.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Never

• I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Will
  • Court
  • Call

• If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Long
  • Wife
  • Always

• Weston Bakeries is proud to support local children's charities across Canada. We believe the more we invest in our kids' futures today, the better our communities will be tomorrow.

  

  Galen Weston
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Kids

• The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Dream

• There's a difference between good chemistry and a bond. Chemistry is something you have with somebody you meet - or you don't. It's an intangible. It may be superficial. It's much harder to put your finger on than a bond.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Good
  • May

• I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in teaching history that went beyond memorizing dates and battles and all of that - basically, looking at the life of individuals throughout history, aided by fascinating primary sources.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Life
  • History

• The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.

  

  Max Levchin
  • Important
  • Single

• I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Life
  • Horse
  • Generosity

• I wouldn't put myself on the same pedestal as Sarah Lancashire.

  

  Katherine Kelly

• I don't believe making a movie accessible means you have to dumb them down.

  

  Charles Roven
  • Believe
  • Movie
  • Dumb

• I want that Sinatra type of fame. It's not the 'Whoever's the hot pop star at the moment' fame. It's the 'Walk into a room and everybody just kind of politely nods their heads' fame. Sinatra fame.

  

  Jerrod Carmichael
  • Star

• If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

  

  Dave Gibbons
  • Vision

• A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Music
  • Business
  • Two

• I'm sorry I didn't have this revelation earlier. I sleep better and more soundly because I'm not participating anymore.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Sleep
  • Sorry
  • Revelations

• Thus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after the event.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Law
  • Desire
  • Illusion

• I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

  

  Don Shula
  • Done
  • Hope
  • Team

• I've had the privilege of coaching the best basketball team in the history of the world, and that's the USA national team. I've had a chance to coach them for eight years. If you were to ask me if I could end my career only coaching one team for the rest of my coaching career, I don't think it could get better than that, especially with the players that I've had during those eight years. When you've coached at that level, you know, you've coached those players, it's pretty hard to say, I would rather coach anybody else.

  

  Geno Auriemma
  • Thinking
  • Team
  • Player

• If somebody is going in the wrong direction, behavioral coaching just helps them get there faster. It doesn't turn the wrong direction into the right direction.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • Coaching