Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
Stephen Covey
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It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.
Wendell Willkie
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Many of us who have cars have felt some form of extreme anger at other drivers because we feel they have put us in harm's way. We might even envision ramming their cars or cutting them off in return, but do we actually do it? No, because the overwhelming majority of us never want to take another human life.
Taya Kyle
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Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
Saint Francis de Sales
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For me, like somebody with finer hair, the key thing is not cutting too many bangs and really just framing my face versus doing a real fringe.
Carlson Young
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For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.
Deborah Eisenberg
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You think NASA is going to be cutting edge, but they've got so many buildings that are just left over from the '60s. It's old.
Allison Schroeder
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The 'Star Wars' universe is full of technological and cutting-edge effects, which Base FX will be a wonderful partner to create with.
Kathleen Kennedy
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I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh.
Jill Scott
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There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it's something that's a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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We should have a path to legal status for the 12 million people that are here illegally. It means, come out from the shadows, pay a fine, earn legal status by working, by paying taxes, learning English. Not committing crimes and earn legal status where you're not cutting in front of the line for people that are patiently waiting outside.
Jeb Bush
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We don't believe that winning elections and winning any amount of votes will win freedom in Ireland. At the end of the day, it will be the cutting edge of the IRA which will bring freedom.
Martin McGuinness
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Some of the most exciting moments in 'Star Wars' are when you're cutting between stories and you're building this momentum.
Alan Yang
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Think about how your jeans would look if you washed and dried them every single day. That's like our hair, and you can't change your hair as often as your pants, so cutting down on washing cuts down on long-term damage.
Jonathan Van Ness
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I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have—that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body builder.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38
Sarah Dessen
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White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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There are battered husbands. Apparently this happens when the woman is real big, the man is very small, and they each drink a quart of whiskey a day.
George Carlin
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We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
Stephen Covey
