Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.
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I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.
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I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.
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Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
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Villains are fun to play.
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Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
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Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
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I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
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My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.
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No country wanted to pay for our rescue, including the United States. The dictator of the Dominican Republic, Trujillo, took a few Jews, thinking they might help bring some prosperity to his tiny, impoverished country. I have heard that they did.
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
