John Whitmore quotes

“Learning to create is essential, necessary, vital & fundamental. It is the centrepiece in which you create the life that you really want”
-- John Whitmore

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“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

Source : John Whitmore (2010). “Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership”, p.34, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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“Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.”
-- John Whitmore

Source : John Whitmore (2010). “Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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“The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys.”
-- John Whitmore

Source : John Whitmore (2010). “Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership”, p.106, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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“Probems must be resolved at the level beneath the one at which they occur.”
-- John Whitmore

#Levels Quotes

“Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.”

Source : "Get Smart" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2011.

“In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.”

“That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life”

“The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.”

Source : Alan Keyes' Speech at the Christian Coalition Dinner in Manchester, New Hampshire, www.keyesarchives.com. February 6, 1999.

“If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.”

“It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment”

Source : "The development of intelligence in children" by Alfred Binet, Théodore Simon, translated by Elizabeth S. Kite, Reprinted 1973, New York: Arno Press, (pp. 42-43), 1983.

“Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.”

“Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.”

“People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “This Book Will Save Your Life”, p.29, Granta Books

“There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.”