Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.
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That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.
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I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with freedom and still mix up the pace, mix up the spins and everything like that. That's what I want to be doing, because you get into that very one-dimensional kind of tennis if you don't work on slicing and coming into the net.
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
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A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
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How can you regret helping a suffering patient?
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I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want.
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I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.
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I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
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Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.
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I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not getting the real me, the whole me, the true me.
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The Justice Department is staunchly committed to ensuring that all Americans are treated in a fair and just manner.
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Ideally, you don't speak until you have something honest to say.
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People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.
