When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills. I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships. ~Britt Ekland
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
#quotes #albert-schweitzer #nature #environment

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
#quotes #martin-amis #novels

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans. ~Lynda Resnick
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
#quotes #william-blake #human #love

Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
#proverbs #death

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles Melville Hays
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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