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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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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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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Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.
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My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.
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I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play.
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I don't understand boys - just ask my husband.
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What Hollywood truly wants is for people to be themselves. I think what it's designed for is to kind of turn people into something and just make them saleable. But what it really stands for, what it really loves, are people who are unafraid to be themselves, and as you can see, these are people who are excelling in their careers.
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
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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.
