19 Quotes by Geoff Colvin

Children whose "parents are very attentive to their elementary needs are likely to develop trust and security, which may promote prosocial orientation," note psychology researchers, but those parents probably weren't consciously trying to create cooperative adults; they were just being good, attentive parents.

In our own lives, we will try something new and, finding that it isn't easy for us, we conclude we don't have a talent for it.

Any adult thinking of starting a professional career in any field in which some participants begin their development as small children should first get out a calculator and face the music

Follow your passion, study it assiduously, and as you pursue it, strive in addition to become more intensely human. Doing so will improve your material well-being as the economy evolves, and it will bring you a richer, fuller life.

What great performers have achieved is the ability to avoid doing it automatically.

The best performers set goals that are not about the outcome but about the process of reaching the outcome.

So your willingness to do it will distinguish you all the more.

Landing on your butt twenty thousand times is where great performance comes from.

The costs of being less than truly world class are growing, as are the rewards of being genuinely great.