Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
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'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
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Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
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Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
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My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.
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Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.
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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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It's about not having doubt in your mind and staying focused and not having any preconceived notion about failure. It's just looking forward and staying positive.
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The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
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Every actor is a model to a certain extent, since they have to do so much press.
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I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.
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Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.
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I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.
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Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
