Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

Active questions are the alternative to passive questions. There is a huge difference between, 'Do you have clear goals?' and 'Did you do your best to set clear goals for yourself?' The former is trying to determine the employee's state of mind; the latter challenges the employee to describe or defend a course of action.

Marshall Goldsmith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: coach
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1949

Topics

GoalsBestDo Your BestYourselfYou

I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.

Meg White

New YorkCoolNewSaidBandShe

If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.

Anna Paquin

TodayTomorrowClothesLaundryNew

I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.

Stephen Dillane

CharacterThinkMaskAttentionHide

It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

Tom Daschle

ImportantUsWouldOurSupportive

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

LaughWillBreatheLaughableWhile

I don't think I'm a particularly good negotiator.

Luke Roberts

GoodThinkParticularly

The bottom line is people are people, and the sooner we realise that, the better off things are going to be.

Dennis Haysbert

PeopleBetterLineBottomGoingOff

In my mind, I always felt like I was worthy. I really felt like, with my career and just the way I did it, it was Hall of Fame-worthy.

Diamond Dallas Page

MindCareerWayAlwaysWorthyJust

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Arthur Conan Doyle

LoveCommandActionsOur LoveOur

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Mother Teresa

WorkHappyMiracle

I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

Lynda Barry

WorkEyesGoOpenMinute

My aim was never to seek a force and take power.

Hosni Mubarak

PowerAimNeverSeekForceTake

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