Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
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As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
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Hardcore fans have a vision in their head, and if they look at your cosplay of it, you may not fit their vision.
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.
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Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.
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Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles.
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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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Cézanne's painting is strictly painting, and its value is immense; but Van Gogh's painting has the Outsider's characteristic: it is a laboratory refuse of a man who treated his own life as an experiment in living; it faithfully records moods and developments of vision on the manner of a Bildungsroman.
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Creating the future means having a global vision and an extreme focus on the approachability of what we're creating.
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Books about technology start-ups have a pattern. First, there's the grand vision of the founders, then the heroic journey of producing new worlds from all-night coding and caffeine abuse, and finally, the grand finale: immense wealth and secular sainthood. Let's call it the Jobs Narrative.
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The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.
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When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.
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I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.
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My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality music, high-quality art. G.O.O.D. Music is entrenched in the culture of hip-hop. It's entrenched in the culture, period.
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A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
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We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.
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We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
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On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.
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Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.
