Sean Covey Quotes
It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
-
The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
-
Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
-
Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
-
When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?
-
My mom was a single parent.
-
When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.
-
Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.
-
I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
-
I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.
-
Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.
-
As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.
-
Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
-
Children are our future, and God loves the children.
-
Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
-
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
-
A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
-
Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.
-
I am the youngest of four children - three boys and one girl. I don't think becoming an actor had anything to do with seeking attention, though. My relationship with my siblings when I was growing up was close and playful.
-
I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping into the atmosphere as though tomorrow simply didn't matter. If we don't act collectively and individually, our children and their children will reap a whirlwind which will obliterate their civilisation.
-
I visited Minnie Pearl's home down in Nashville, and I liked it so much I asked the same man to help fix up my place.
-
I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.
-
It may be that the impressions of her infancy are caught somehow in the pulp of her eyes, luring her. Or there may be some hooked structure in her cells that twist her toward all that the world calls freakish.
-
It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.
