Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
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The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
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He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.
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The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go out in the evening, so a dress should always look appropriate for day and night.
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As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
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God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.
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People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
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Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.
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And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
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Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future.
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The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
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Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.
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For me, life is like an act within itself. Everything I do is an act. Where I'm going is an act.
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We never invest in a male; we never invest in a female. We just invest in the right entrepreneur.
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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
