Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
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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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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.
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Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.
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I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
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I'd get to a point with my colleagues when I couldn't explain any further, because it came down to 'To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.'.
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I believe the printed word is more than sacred Beyond the gauge of good or bad The human right to let your soul fly free and naked Above the violence of the fearful and sad
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.
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Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
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Before 'Power,' I got down to $86 in my bank account. I don't know if I feel successful as much as I feel relieved because for the first time in my life I'm not scared about how I'm going to pay my rent, and I can start to put money away.
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Good legislation should bring clarity and not confusion.
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We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis.
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I don't like to think of it as being fired. Instead, I prefer to think of it as being on indefinite leave with a sabbatical flair.
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In 'Shadow Tag,' Erdrich creates scenes from a fictional marriage, that of two American Indians, Irene and her painter husband Gil, that suggest some of the worst psychological torments and stresses of real life.
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If I'm playing higher up the pitch, it's important I don't get carried away and start dropping too deep and I stay in my position.
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I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.
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I don't think fame is that important to me.
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The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
