Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day--in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you and your response to it. You will be more connected to what really matters most.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
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When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.
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I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.
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I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
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A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.
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Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.
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By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.
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I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage.
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I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.
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Rock 'n' roll... but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.
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Glibness will get your anywhere.
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You can't wish away poverty overnight.
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When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.
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I've become accustomed to playing the good guy - maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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I should think you could be gladder on Monday morning than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!
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Everyone wants to be immortal. Few are. Margaret Thatcher is. Why? Because her values are timeless, eternal. Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the world, and ask what Mrs Thatcher believed in, and they will tell you. They can give a clear answer to what she 'stood for.'
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Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.
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If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day--in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you and your response to it. You will be more connected to what really matters most.
