Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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Too often, companies focus on systems and structures that facilitate cultural change at the mid-management level, overlooking problems closer to the top.
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Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
