Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
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The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
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The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.
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Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynamic; space is imbued with movement expressed by forces and counterforces; space vibrates and resounds with color, light and form in the rhythm of life.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
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It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
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The state is primarily an organization for killing foreigners.
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Birthdays was the worst days; now we sip champagne when we're thirsty.
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Beyond his own sure knowledge, he had not a shred of proof.
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When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
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I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness.
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It's not about how much you make: it's about how good the quality is. You'll be better off as a company making fewer things and concentrating on those and how you bring those to market... in a very less cluttered way, even though the marketplace is more cluttered.
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I came into the world weighing one pound, 14 ounces. My family knows what it's like to go through the struggle of not knowing if your baby is going to be OK.
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Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.
