Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images, not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.
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What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
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Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.
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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
