Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
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The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.
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And understand: class differences will not save you.
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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
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Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.
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Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.
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Look within,
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.
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The thing to do is just make sure that as part of a disability community, we're not isolating ourselves by drawing differences for the sake of progress.
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The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.
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But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.
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I've come to realize that the difference in success or failure is not how you look, how you dress, or how you're educated. It's how you think !
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Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
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I don't know who said it, but it really kind of hit me hard in the stomach: "The only difference between all of us is that some of us were loved and some of us weren't."
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Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.
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We have certain differences over the ways to pursue our goals, but our final aims coincide, in my opinion.
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There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.
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Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current
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Republicans - Reagan but also George W. Bush - believed in freedom, and they believed in America's role. To have the governing party speak in terms of a zero-sum world, or speak in terms of America's purpose as no more than grabbing the largest share possible in the short run, goes against our foreign policy tradition that goes back to 1900, really.
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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
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Strength lies in differences, not in similarities
