Marshall Goldsmith Quotes
Coaching works best with high potential people who are willing to make a concerted effort to change, not as a religious conversion activity.

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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.
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I don't know that my voice ever makes sense anywhere, necessarily. I would sing bluegrass music, and I don't fit in there; I would sing rock music, and I'm probably a little too hillbilly for that. And country, I'm too much rock n' roll for there sometimes.
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The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules
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The nurses' job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It's just a consequence of their environment.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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Coaching works best with high potential people who are willing to make a concerted effort to change, not as a religious conversion activity.