Erik Per Sullivan Quotes

Karate is good for teaching you to do what you're supposed to do.

Erik Per Sullivan

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• The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Man
  • Mistake

• Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Teaching
  • Most
  • Did

• I don't know karate, but I know crazy.

  

  James Brown
  • Crazy
  • Revenge
  • Karate

• The most embarrassing thing for me was the day Bob Hope called me up and I was spaced out on cocaine. I was supposed to do his TV special, and I didn't turn up. Consequently, I was blacklisted by NBC for a long time. I damaged my career, and almost ruined my whole life.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Well, it was strange, because the phone rang and a teaching job turned up that sounded interesting. And I always did my own work. The Animals and a lot of Public Relations were done while I was doing commercial work.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Boy
  • Famous
  • Wanted

• One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as writing that line. A yogi sees things in every movement he makes, maybe when practicing, maybe when teaching, or maybe when talking to people. You should have courage in your convictions and pursue what is dear to you all these years.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Courage
  • Teaching
  • Actions

• You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Up
  • Long
  • College

• Employees want to believe their company has a meaningful purpose. They want to know that their own job is worthwhile. They want to make a difference. If all three of these conditions are accomplished, bottom line results will follow.

  

  Quint Studer
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Purpose

• But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.

  

  Quint Studer
  • Important
  • Learning
  • Struggle

• As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.

  

  Quint Studer
  • Work
  • Learning
  • Training

• One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

  

  R. H. Tawney
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Teaching

• All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Life
  • Men
  • Needs

• People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Supposed
  • Disappoint

• Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Bad
  • Feelings
  • Criticism

• The best learning I had came from teaching.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Learning
  • Teaching

• Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Child
  • Karate

• If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• With our producer, Greg Fidelman, it was really a joy to work with him and to try different things and experiment.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Joy
  • Experiment
  • Producer

• The thing is I have no ACL. So unless I get surgery, there's nothing really magical that I can do that's going to make it better. I just can get my leg stronger, my muscle stronger and try and support it a little more. But that has a small impact. My knee is loose, and it's not stable, and that's the way it's going to be from here on out.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Small
  • Support
  • Stronger

• I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Up
  • Fashion
  • Scary

• Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.

  

  Andrew Sharp
  • Health
  • Wine
  • Relaxation

• Karate is good for teaching you to do what you're supposed to do.

  

  Erik Per Sullivan
  • Teaching
  • Supposed
  • Karate