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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Doing the right thing is easy. It is much more difficult to... figure out what the right thing is.
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I believe that those who promote discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or any other grounds are gravely mistaken about the values that make our nation strong. I will continue to move my administration in the direction of compassion, acceptance, and understanding.
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What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.
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It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?
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Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
