"Coaches should realize that the only way to……" — Harold Nicolson
"Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done becomes twice as dull, whereas a dull job performed as efficiently as possible becomes half as dull. Effort appears to be the main art of living."
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Harold Nicolson
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13 Quotes by Harold Nicolson
Harold Nicolson has 13 quotes on this site.
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We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We…
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Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to…
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Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.
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Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender…
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To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff
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The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.
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The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
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The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as…
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
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When I look back upon the more than sixty years that I have spent on this entrancing earth, and when…
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