Book Titles

A Game Plan for Life
The Power of Mentoring

By John Wooden

Year Published: 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1596917019
Categories: Coaching, Mentoring, Teaching

47 Quotes Found

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A Game Plan for Life:

Holding onto old grudges and nursing wounds we refuse to allow to heal can keep us locked in the same place.

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A Game Plan for Life:

Nothing ruins a team more quickly than apathy.

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A Game Plan for Life:

…a mentor can speak across time and place, teaching truths through the decisions of his own life and the thoughts of his own pen.

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A Game Plan for Life:

The legacy a person leaves with his or her actions and writings is no less a means of mentoring than is a one-on-one conversation about experience and advice.

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A Game Plan for Life:

Trust is not an easy lesson to learn; in fact, it’s often one that people learn as a result of experiencing the betrayal of trust first.

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A Game Plan for Life:

It is essential to trust and to be trustworthy…

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A Game Plan for Life:

You can only be successful at the big things if you do the little things right.

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A Game Plan for Life:

…it always comes down to learning how to learn and how to compete. With those two qualities, you can do anything you want.

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A Game Plan for Life:

…worry about the things you can control, and not the things you can’t.

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A Game Plan for Life:

You often don’t recognize the mentors at the time they’re deeply involved in your life; and mentoring often occurs even when you don’t want it to.

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