Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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Everything has a place and time.
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There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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You have to ask if the country would have been ready for Barack Obama if we hadn't been prepared by Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. If they hadn't already been in positions of enormous power and influence - secretary of state, secretary of defence - you know what I mean?
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At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.
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I’ve known Donald (Trump) for a few decades, and what you can say without argument is that he’s a good father. His kids have turned out really well. There’s nothing bad you can say about that.
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Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
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If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.
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Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.
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It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.
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I would love to have dinner with Jay-Z and Beyonce. I think we would have a lot to chat about. I like them both so much, and I love them as a couple. I like that they are both at the top of their game - and that they have a mutual respect and admiration for each other.
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I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.
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Night is the mother of thoughts.
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Filling a theatre like the Olympia or Vicar Street on your own name is a very rewarding moment.
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The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold along the shores of Japan returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and geography, uniting them at once and for ever in indissoluble union.
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when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.
