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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Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
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I don't think it's an ethical or moral issue, or even that people are stupid, but I do feel like as a culture things are out of balance, perverted, and inverted. Things that are ridiculous are worshipped, and things that are important are ridiculed. I think that's something worth thinking about.
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You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in a story-teller's tale.
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I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
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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.
