Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
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First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.
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Every policy officer is sworn to protect life, and, under the most extreme circumstances, to take life. It is a staggering responsibility that requires officers to make split second decisions.
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.
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All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.
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You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.
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The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
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That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.
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I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.
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'Tell me, then! What is so important?''Your life! I could not bear that you should lose it!''I feel much the same. Say on.'
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Over and over, we begin again.
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Directors have good and bad movies. My father also made some flop movies, and he had bigger hits, too. That should not determine anything.
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As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.
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Where there is life there is a pattern, and where there is a pattern there is mathematics. Once that germ of rationality and order exists to turn a chaos into a cosmos, then so does mathematics. There could not be a non-mathematical Universe containing living observers.
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A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
