Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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Let students use technologies in the classroom.
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Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
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I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
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Anyone who ever spoke to me would know I would never say the words 'get hitched' nxt time do ur research.
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Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don't know.
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Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!' 'I don't know, a bowl?' 'Non... I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants!
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The person I like most is the one who points out my defects
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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
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What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.
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Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.
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Great witch, tough woman.
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I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed an organizing technique. I've always characterized the difference in saying that they went in for mobilization. And, to be honest, in terms of the historical facts, their mobilization usually was predicated upon some effort at organizing by someone else. And, at this stage, it was largely SNCC.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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All I can think is that the owners of Chick-Fil-A have decided they have had enough, that they're just going to focus on selling chicken sandwiches to as many people as they can, and they figure that keeping their views about marriage to themselves is better than having a bunch of angry activists on your doorstep.
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[Dirk Gently] just doesn't understand social cues.
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...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
