Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
If we spend most of our time concerned about things we cannot truly directly influence, what we can influence will be reduced. If we spend our energies on those things over which we can expect positive results, we will expand our influence.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.
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I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
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It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.
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Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
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It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.
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You can forgive yourself a great deal.
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For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.
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On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
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I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.
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If we spend most of our time concerned about things we cannot truly directly influence, what we can influence will be reduced. If we spend our energies on those things over which we can expect positive results, we will expand our influence.
