Geoff Colvin; 2008
- Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers...(part 1)
Self-regulation begins with setting goals. These are not big, life-directing goals, but instead are more immediate goals for what you're going to be doing today. In the research, the poorest performers don't set goals at all; they just slog through their work. Mediocre performers set goals that are general and are often focused on simply achieving a good outcome - win the order; close out my positions at a profit; get the new project proposal done.
Barrack Obama; 1995
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power - and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.
