There is a distressing tendency of the L&D profession to latch on to half read and barely understood concepts.

The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.

The cost of a range of appropriate courses and training activities is much less than the cost of incompetence.

There’s a fine line between child-like – learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff – and being child-ish.

Want to educate a child?Provide them opportunities to be themselves.

Don't ever be honest about who you are—and I mean that as a life rule, not just in this instance.

A vision without a practical plan to develop it, is only that… “a vision.

Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.

Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

Makeup is the finishing touch, the final accessory.

The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people in bad ways.