Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Ronald ReaganRead
You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
Interpretation
A football coach, like a teacher, imparts knowledge and skills to a new group of students each year.
This quote by Darrell Royal highlights the essential role of a football coach as an educator. Just as teachers shape the minds of their students, coaches develop and guide their players, contributing to both their personal and athletic growth. Each season brings a new team dynamic, requiring coaches to adapt their teaching methods and connect with different individuals, fostering teamwork and facilitating skill development in a competitive environment.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a coaching clinic to emphasize the importance of education in sports.
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
You need people who have their own views, whose views you respect, whom you can have a productive disagreement with, and work out ideas which you might not have come up with, or who improve on ideas you had.
I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.
When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.
Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.
When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started understanding, by working for other people, is that the best type of director is someone who rose through the ranks.
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