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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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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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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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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Personally, I'd have a baby just for the epidural.
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I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.
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If I had coached in high school for 60 years, I would have loved it. Getting to the top was not a goal. I welcomed the opportunities, but I just believed do the best doggone job you can, and good things will happen.
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I try to figure out how much of the character I can find in myself because you don't want to get outside of your skill-set.
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...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.
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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.
