Coaching Quote of the Day 5th April 2015
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
(Charles Dickens)
Charles Dickens
Coaching Quote of the Day 27th March 2015
“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”
(Charles Dickens)
Coaching Quote of the Day 18th October 2014
“Reflect upon your present blessings – of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
(Charles Dickens)
Coaching Quote of the Day 21st June 2011
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.”
(Charles Dickens, “David Copperfield”)
For those not familiar with the currency of Victorian England, Great Britain’s currency pre-decimalisation was pounds, shillings and pence. This was abbreviated to £,s,d.
With this monetary system 12 pence = 1 shilling and 20 shillings = 1 pound.
So in the above quote “nineteen pounds nineteen and six” is £19, 19 shillings and six pence. Which is six pence under 20 pounds.”
Twenty pound ought and six” is £20, 0 shillings and six pence. Which is six pence over 20 pounds
Coaching Quote of the Day 29th May 2011
“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
(Charles Dickens)