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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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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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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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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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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Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
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Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and terrorists are bad people. The ideals of these groups are in opposition to everything our nation stands for and everything that holds true to our founding principles. Their hatred of people dissimilar to them is un-American, and it should not be tolerated under any circumstances.
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.
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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.
