Quotation Collection

Great performers isolate remarkably specific aspects of what they do and focus on just those things until they are improved; then it's on to the next aspect. Geoff Colvin

• excellence
• practice

This is the source.

I have found that by looking at what is rewarded and punished, and why, universally — i.e., in nature as well as in humanity — I have been able to learn more about what is "good" and "bad" than by listening to most people's views about good and bad. Ray Dalio

• principle

This is the source.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

• fear

You start developing a championship attitude by, first of all, telling kids that they are really good and that they have the potential to become better. Mike Krzyzewski

• attitude
• confidence
• coaching