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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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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'Still feeling guilty, are we? I’d have thought you’d be over that by now.''I have a nettlesome little thing called a conscience,' Emily hissed. 'Ever hear of it?''They’re out of fashion in New York,' Stanton said, and though she guessed she was joking, he didn’t sound humorous.
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No movement calls migrant workers oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
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Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
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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.
