Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'
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The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.
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I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
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The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
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I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.
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I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.
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I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
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I did not capture power. I was made to assume power.
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We have to build the spiritual world out of symbols taken from our own personality, as we build the scientific world out of the symbols of the mathematician.
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I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.
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I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit, combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek Economy.
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Thinking of the dismissal by Leicester, the first thing that comes to mind is a sense of surprise even more than of bitterness.
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Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.
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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.
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..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might.
