Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.
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If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
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He had delusions of adequacy.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.
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Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.
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Millennials are a very interesting generation for a lot of reasons. They're absolutely adorable, but they have some significant challenges. Their lives and their careers are delayed by about 10 years, partly because of the recession, also because of technology and also because of the way that they approach things.
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I'm a huge gamer.
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Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
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Beauty is very much broader than just to the eye. It is our whole, positive response to life. An artist is fortunate in that his work is the inner contemplation of beauty, of perfection in life. We cannot make anything perfectly, but with inner contemplation of perfection, we can suggest it.
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There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell!
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Had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.
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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be on track for the same future.
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But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheists? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substanceSo that this atheism by consequence is a very easy thing to be fallen into, even by the most godly men of the church.
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I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
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You don't want to think too much of the past, you just want to focus on what's coming up and the games coming thick and fast.
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Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
