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‘One minute decides the outcome of a battle,’ Suvorov wrote, ‘one hour the outcome of a campaign, one day the fate of empires.’
Clearly, in any game played with the body, it’s the head that counts.
‘Maps force clarity,’
From listening comes knowledge; From knowledge comes understanding; From understanding comes wisdom; From wisdom comes well-being.
High-performing teams promote a culture of honesty, authenticity and safe conflict.
To the degree that integrity is diminished, the opportunity for performance is diminished.
Every morning write a list of the things that need to be done that day. 2. Do them.
Champions do extra.’
‘At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box’.
Find something you would die for and give your life to it.
First we shape our values; then our values shape us.
Words start revolutions.
‘Tell me and I’ll forget,’ goes the old saying, ‘show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.’
My bravery is inherited from the chiefs who came before me. I stand tall on the shoulders of giants.
‘Life is no brief candle to me,’ wrote George Bernard Shaw, ‘It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.’ Don’t let the music die.
‘Example is not the main thing in influencing others,’ said the philosopher Albert Schweitzer. ‘It is the only thing.’
‘A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never see’.
The word character comes from the Ancient Greek, kharakter, meaning the mark that is left on a coin during its manufacture. Character is also the mark left on you by life, and the mark we leave on life. It’s the impact you make when you’re here, the trace you leave once you’re gone.
John Wooden said, ‘Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.’
Any success should not be attributed to me alone; it was the work of us all.
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading. In order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
