Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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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.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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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?
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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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.
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I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
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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.
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The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.
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If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
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Disasters teach us humility.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.
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Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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If you ever really want to get away from it all and see something that you have never seen, and have an excellent chance of seeing something no one has ever seen, get in a sub. You climb in, seal the hatch, turn on a little oxygen, turn on the scrubber, which removes the CO2 in the air you breathe, and they chuck you overboard. Down you go.
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Only first-place trophies will be displayed, accepted, or presented in this battalion. Second place in our line of work is defeat of the unit on the battlefield, and death for the individual in combat. No fat troops or officers. Decision-making will be decentralized: Push the power down. It pays off in wartime. Loyalty flows down as well. I check up on everything. I am available day or night to talk with any officer of this battalion. Finally, the sergeant major works only for me and takes orders only from me. He is my right-hand man.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
