Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.
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It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.
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The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
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The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
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Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
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When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!
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I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.
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I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
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All my children inspire me in life, and that always comes out in the writing.
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And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. I know it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
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You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with things that actually work, even in those tough situations.
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My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
