Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.
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I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S. senator. I personally contributed my own money.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
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These days I seem to think a lotAbout the things that I forgot to doFor youAnd all the times I had the chance to.
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Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.
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...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute-though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
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This is like winning an Oscar!… As if I would know! Speaking of acting, one of my movies was called True Lies. And that’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.
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Show mercy. No soul ever was made poor by loving too much, or injured by forgiving too often.
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I love him (Josh Homme) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much ... unless you're family.
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I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner;I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the firm's Cortina.
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.
