Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
Stephen Covey
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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
Jack Osbourne
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I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
Arthur C. Clarke
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It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.
Uma Thurman
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You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'
Saint Augustine
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Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested."
Jon Bon Jovi
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Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
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I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.
Geri Halliwell
Spice Girls
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Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it was just photography with a set shutter speed, I got some slide film and I just went about storyboarding the script and taking snapshots. I took a ton of time doing it just to make sure I knew exactly what I was doing. By the end of it I knew what the film was going to look like - my exposure and the composition and everything. I wasn't scared of cinematography anymore.
Shane Carruth
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The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence, society would thrash about for alternative incentives-some unreliable, like altruism; some perilous like collective loyalty; some intolerable, like coercion or oppression.
Arthur Melvin Okun
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Well, trials are the portion of mankind, and gardeners have their share, and in any case it is better to be tried by plants than persons, seeing that with plants you know that it is you who are in the wrong, and with persons it is always the other way about—and who is there among us who has not felt the pangs of injured innocence, and known them to be grievous?
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
Stephen Covey
