David Perkins Quotes
The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths, identifies weaknesses, points up principles, offers guiding and often inspiring imagery, and decides what kind of practice to emphasize.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
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In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.
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A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
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When people silo themselves by belief, only affiliating with like-minded media organizations and people, we lose the opportunity for genuine conversation, much less persuasion.
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I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.
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To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
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The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths, identifies weaknesses, points up principles, offers guiding and often inspiring imagery, and decides what kind of practice to emphasize.
