Mark Goulston Quotes

Something I had learned from 30 years as a psychotherapist turned Fortune 500 executive coach when helping people to calm down is that it is much less important what you tell others than what you enable them to tell you and, in the process, tell themselves that results in them calming themselves down.

Mark Goulston

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PeopleCalmProcessYouDownCoach

I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.

Jenny Lewis

FatherI AmThinkBetterTalking

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Matthew Simpson

FaithGreatPastPresentKnow

When results aren't good the manager gets the sack, that's the game.

Roy Keane

GoodGameResultsManagerSackGets

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

Lucinda Williams

SuccessYourselfProcessEndYou

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

David Simon

PeopleStoryCareYouGoMatter

I remember being away somewhere, and I had forgotten it was Valentine's Day with a person, and that was very embarrassing.

Bradley Cooper

Valentine's DayDayRememberPerson

Nobody knows anything.

William Goldman

NobodyAnythingKnows

When I was a child, sitting in front of the campfire, I wished that I could win the Ballon d'Or.

Paulo Dybala

ChildWinSittingCampfireFront

My second 30 is actually very good, where my turnovers are very quick. I just want to put a complete race together, once I get out of my drive phase, I want to hit my next 30 very hard.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

GoodTogetherDriveWantRaceHard

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

James Monroe

CharacterPeopleFreeTaxesSacred

We forget when we're all grown up. 16 was a long time ago. It's hard to remember how freakin' difficult it is as 16! Life is not easy, and you're trying to figure stuff out.

Greg Rucka

LifeTimeRememberTryingLongYou

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

Erik Larson

SmallReadingDiaryPointBigFound

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