Erik Per Sullivan Quotes
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Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
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I don't know karate, but I know crazy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.
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One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.
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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.
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Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.
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The best learning I had came from teaching.
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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.
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When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.
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Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.
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Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
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If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.
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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
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Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.
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Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
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More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
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Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not just a trading bloc but a political entity. Do we realise that our nation states, taken individually, would find it far more difficult to assert their existence and their identity on the world stage.
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You don't jump out of an airplane and stop halfway. It's all the way.
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Karate is good for teaching you to do what you're supposed to do.
