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What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

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Michael Josephson
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 10
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What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by who and for what?
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Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right.
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If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character.
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A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.
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The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.
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