Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'
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You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
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A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.
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Love just happens, you know.
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I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all – or am I?
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I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done science fiction shows. I was on 'Murder She Wrote,' I was on 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' I was on 'Jake and the Fat Man.'
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It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
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Many people don't have an outlet for their feelings or how they can express life and not everybody in a relationship is the kind of person who wants to. But if you can write, you can find a good way to do it.
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I mean we cant even rock them shoes if it dont got a comma on the price tag ya know. I mean.. I mean but then again who looks at the price tag ya know?
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Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.
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I feel terrific - my mind, my energy, my focus continues to be what it always has been, and I have a renewed sense of purpose.
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Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.
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The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.
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The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.
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If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.
