Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.

Teaching is really very, very important. I always tell my students that you should find an opportunity to teach. When you teach others, you teach yourself.

It helps you as a person when you're teaching something to somebody to understand it even better.

Writing and speaking and communicating, it's something important to me, and something I want to get better at.

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

My mother taught me how to write.

I was kind of reflecting on my life and certain experiences, and you know, when I'm teaching and coaching my partners on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I sort of use those stories and anecdotes to help them sort of overcome certain fears.

I think people are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact.

I could have coached better.

Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

Writing gave me the world.

I find teaching to be a great way to keep everything in perspective and to help give back. It's also a lot of fun and creatively invigorating.