Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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We need the world to respect us. They consume a lot of hits and just act like it wasn't... I ain't never seen nobody make these many hits and not get notified for it. And change the game like we did and bring the flow to the game the way we did and not get noticed for it, like the the big way - the real system way.
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.
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I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.
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India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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No one likes change but babies in diapers.
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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
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It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
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We have to overcome the practice of male domination - even though it's changing, and changing in Liberia quite drastically.
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Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.
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I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
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A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
