The document contains short quotes and sayings about learning, teaching, coaching and achievement. It advises not trying to teach those unwilling to learn, learning more from defeat than victory, and gaining qualities like silence, tolerance and kindness from difficult people. Other quotes discuss living each day as if it were your last, communicating expectations, teaching a longing for knowledge over specific skills, helping others achieve goals independently, and realizing hidden potential.

1. Don’t try & teach a
pig to sing. It’s a
waste of time and
it annoys the pig.

2. I learned much
more from defeat .
More than I ever
learnt from winning

3. I have learnt
silence from the
talkative; tolerance
from the intolerant;
kindness from the
unkind. Yet
strangely, I am
ungrateful to these
teachers

4. The hardest of all
is learning to be a
well of affection
and not a fountain:
to show them we
love them not when
we feel like it but
when they do

5. Live as if you were
to die tomorrow,
learn as f you were
to live forever

6. If I fall short of
your expectations
and you don’t tell
me we have both
failed.

7. If you want to build
a ship do not send
your men out to get
wood and tools…
but teach them a
longing for the
wide open sea

8. Coaching is helping
to achieve their
goals by
themselves, though
not on their own

9. What gets
measured gets
done, what gets
measured and gets
feedback gets done
well, what get
rewarded gets
repeated.

10. We all have
possibilities that
we don’t know
about, we can do
things we don’t
even dream we can
do