Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
Carlisle Floyd
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
Cam
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Justice is revenge.
Saad Hariri
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
J. J. Watt
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We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
Wendell Pierce
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
Sam Kean
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
Venus Williams
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Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
Becky G
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
Natan Sharansky
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine
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I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.
Zooey Deschanel
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I don't really write all that well with others.
Washed Out
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
Quincy Jones
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It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.
Clive James
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Hatred observes with more care than love does.
Mason Cooley
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When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.
Debra Wilson
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When culture changes around us, God's standard of living does not. Even when we're engulfed by evil, the eyes of the Lord range to and fro throughout all the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him.
David Jeremiah
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I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.
Jon Secada
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The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
Pankaj Mishra
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What's great about the iPad and iPhone is that they are easy-on, easy-off.
Aneel Bhusri
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I have the same blankie that I've had since childhood.
Brett Young
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Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.
Stephen Covey