Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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I think there are things that you look for when you're younger, and you think they are going to make you happier or make you feel complete. That's not going to happen, and it's really about living the moments. Eventually, you reach a point when you're at ease with your life and don't have any unrealistic expectations.
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I'm so happy that I was able to make it to 120 games for Germany; 175 games would have been possible. I've had many great moments, but particularly the way the fans supported me and the road to the final in Rio.
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I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history. To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past - which is to say, only a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments. Each moment it has lived becomes a citation à l'ordre du jour - and that day is Judgement Day.
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I rather disdained than coveted the luxuries I saw : alas ! we desire riches more for others than ourselves.
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The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.
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I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
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In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
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I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.
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Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form silent opinions based on our choices of subway reading. Just by glimpsing the cover staring back at us, we can reach the pinnacle of carnal desire or the depths of hatred. Soul mate or mortal enemy.
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I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.
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We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
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All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right; because they have a reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real matter of fact; and are not always conformable to that standard.
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If you throw the pebble in the pond and the rings start circulating that much wider, you've done things and created things for people that they didn't think they'd ever be able to do. That excites me.
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I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.
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Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!
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I think the word 'woke' is now over. The first time I heard my mature, white dad use that term, I was like 'OK, this is done.'
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Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.
