Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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Being a teenager is hard.
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Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.
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I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
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I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
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Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.
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My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
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Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
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We drank a toast to innocenceWe drank a toast to now.And tried to reach beyond the emptinessBut neither one knew how.
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Don't let's go to the dogs tonight,For mother will be there.
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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.
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To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.
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I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.
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Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.
