Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can really hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Nothing in my songs is disrespective.
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I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.
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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
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She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
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Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
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Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.
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It was thinking about Casagemas's death that started me painting in blue.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.
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Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.
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So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
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We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.
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It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.
