Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.

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• I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Live
  • Teach
  • Option

• I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • People
  • Work
  • Teach

• On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Book
  • Learn
  • Teach

• If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Teach
  • Meaning
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• I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Responsibility
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• You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Basketball

• A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • True
  • Man

• While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Same

• I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.

  

  Maika Monroe
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  • Dad
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• If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Future
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  • Child

• If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
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  • Listen

• Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Small
  • English
  • Teach

• I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Good
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• You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Believe
  • True
  • Bible

• I love being a mom. And I think what I love the most is the way it makes me think about what's important and what's not important. What to fight for and what to just be cool with. What it is that I'm teaching through example and what it is that I was taught that I don't want to teach.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Important
  • Mom
  • Cool

• Acquire knowledge and teach it to people.

  

  Umar
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Teach

• The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Learning
  • Positive
  • Teach

• If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Way
  • Deserve
  • Criminals

• Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this cause shall and must remain; the devil shall not be able to overthrow it, much less the world be able to uproot it, how fiercely soever it rage.

  

  Martin Luther
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• When you teach, you learn.

  

  Helen Suzman
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• What it is now is basically, I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac. And how it works is, say - I have a program called 'Ableton Live.' And, you know, you'll open it up, and it's just blank. There's nothing there. And then you start.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Live
  • Know

• If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Perspective
  • Humor
  • Ifs

• Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right now.

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
  • Fate
  • Regret
  • Wonders

• I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.

  

  Stephen Covey
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