Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.
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The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.
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I think in any profession, in general, you always imagine yourself at the top of it. And I'm not trying to say I'm at the top of my profession, but I've seen what the top people do and what the top people live like. And that's definitely something I want to be a part of.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!
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The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.
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I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.
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I didn't study; I live.
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I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.'
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I play video games a lot... I love to read... I enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter, who are my most favorite people in the world.
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I grew up with a truck. My dad had one, so I like trucks.
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A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.
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I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.
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For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.
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The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.
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The youth movement is aware that old visions can not take Egypt into the future.
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It is a little scary to go across the whole country, and basically the world, and be like, 'What's up? I'm gay, and you should let me get married everywhere.' I don't feel like I'm a spokesperson. I just sing what my experience is.
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It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?
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For me, hearing my voice is sometimes a little nauseating, especially at Christmas.
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
