Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
Stephen Covey
Quotes to Explore
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To understand the limitation of things, desire them.
Lao Tzu
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I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.
William Feather
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All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.
Hermann Hesse
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The word "knowledge" itself, we like to break it down into two different words, "know" and "ledge." You've got to know the ledge. Know the limitation of things. Know where they go, know where they start from. We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. But everything is first based on something being known. Then, when it's known, then it can be manifested.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs
Achozen
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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
Victor Hugo
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Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.
Anthony Robbins
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Whenever somebody reaches above their own limitations - I always tell people, the best time to go give is when you have nothing.
Anthony Robbins
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I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.
Sandra Cisneros
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
Herodotus
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... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.
Amelia Barr
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This melting pot of experiences, interests, educations, backgrounds, and cultures makes the U.S. truly amazing. It's how we can come together to come up with new ideas, to collaborate, and to innovate without having to think about borders.
Rana el Kaliouby
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What makes Pixar special is that we acknowledge we will always have problems, many of them hidden from our view; that we work hard to uncover these problems, even if doing so means making ourselves uncomfortable; and that, when we come across a problem, we marshal all of our energies to solve it. This, more than any elaborate party or turreted workstation, is why I love coming to work in the morning. It is what motivates me and gives me a definite sense of mission.
Edwin Catmull
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Article 11 of the NPT states that if we are threatened, we can act in secret.
Ali Larijani
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In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.
Alfie Kohn
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I had to pinch myself a couple of times that I was actually on stage at the Atlantic with Carol Kane.
Brigitte Michael Sumner
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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
Stephen Covey
