A Quote by Stephen Covey

Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.

Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey
American - Educator
October 24, 1932 - July 16, 2012

Some would define a servant like this: 'A servant is one who finds out what his master wants him to do, and then he does it.' The human concept of a servant is that a servant goes to the master and says, 'Master, what do you want me to do?' The master tells him, and the servant goes off BY HIMSELF and does it. That is not the biblical concept of a servant of God. Being a servant of God is different from being a servant of a human master. A servant of a human master works FOR his master. God, however, works THROUGH His servants.

Henry Blackaby

You're either selfish, or you're a servant...but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant?...A good marriage is a servant and a servant.

Mark Driscoll

Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.

David Foster Wallace

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

Robin Sharma

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

Christian Lous Lange

A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

George Muller

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

James F. Cooper

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

P. T. Barnum

Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

P. T. Barnum

Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

Karl Kraus

Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.

Stephen Covey

It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.

Plato

Fight hierarchy and bureaucracy as hard as you possibly can. Don't ever let it become the master; always remember it's the servant.

Herb Kelleher

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Francis Bacon

Dear friend, I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember his for the next time I'm having a terrible week. Have you wer done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I'll feel great again. It doesn't work a lot, but I think it's very important to try.

Stephen Chbosky

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

Jupiter Hammon

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