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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I was really a little housewife with two small children, and I had a husband who really didn't want his wife to work. He didn't like the competition. That's why I'm not married to him anymore.
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My favorite super hero has always been Spiderman.
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I don't go in for the high-end gyms with the high-tech equipment and all the fancy stuff.
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The problem a lot of writers have is that they really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.
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One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.
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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.
