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.
J. William Fulbright -
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden -
If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
Aasif Mandvi -
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.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
And understand: class differences will not save you.
H. Rap Brown -
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
T. S. Eliot
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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.
Barack Obama -
Look within,
H. W. L. Poonja -
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Jason Mraz -
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.
Betty Smith -
But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.
Rachel Cohn
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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 !
Mac Anderson -
Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
David Deida -
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."
Kristen Stewart -
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.
Martha Gellhorn -
The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).
L. Ron Hubbard -
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.
Aristotle
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For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.
Mahatma Gandhi -
And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.
Margaret Mitchell -
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
Yann Martel -
If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.
Bernice Rubens -
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities
Stephen Covey