Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.

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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.
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I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.
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Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.
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New thinking. Unleashing growth that creates opportunity. Promoting development that lifts all people out of poverty.Supporting democracy that gives citizens their say. Advancing the security and justice that delivers peace. Respecting the human rights of all people. These are the keys to progress - not just in Africa, but around the world.
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I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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It's important to experience as many parts of an organization as you can - because some day, you may have the chance to lead that organization.
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I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.
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I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.
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I love New York! It's probably my favorite city in the entire world.
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I have a sort of inner sense for scale.
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Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.
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Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
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After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!
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I would like to be part of sensible cinema, irrespective of whether it is a commercial or niche film, but it doesn't always pan out like that.
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If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.