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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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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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 also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
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Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our knowing makes himself known in the disguise of what we can know. The Christian word for this is revelation, and the ultimate revelation came by incarnation. ... God is the master of disguises, in order that we might see.
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There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.
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You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.
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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.
