Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.
Stephen Covey
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I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
Tayari Jones
The fact that the general incidence of leukemia has doubled in the last two decades may be due, partly, to the increasing use of x-rays for numerous purposes. The incidence of leukemia in doctors, who are likely to be so exposed, is twice that of the general public. In radiologists … the incidence is ten times greater.
Isaac Asimov
You don't have to wait-you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.
Larry Wall
U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.
Charles Bass
If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
Arthur Bloch
With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.
James Gleick
Usually after I'm done with working, I just come home and play a little game and go to bed. After work, I have a lot time to do a lot of stuff. I think I've got a good balance of work and play.
Benjamin Stockham
Art is that imaginative expression of human energy, which, through technical concretion of feeling and perception, tends to reconcile the individual with the universal, by exciting in him impersonal emotion. And the greatest Art is that which excites the greatest impersonal emotion in an hypothecated perfect human being.
John Galsworthy
A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.
Mahatma Gandhi
With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
Tavi Gevinson
In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.
Henry Paulson
If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.
Stephen Covey
