Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
Harrison Birtwistle -
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
Barbara Tuchman -
We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
Idina Menzel -
Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
Federica Mogherini -
Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.
Harry Browne -
I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
Daniel Bruhl
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I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
Karen O -
New York ladies all look immaculate.
Zac Posen -
I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'
Ottessa Moshfegh -
When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.
Sam Simon -
A lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. Especially people who have valuable knowledge.
Adam D'Angelo -
No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.
Rafael Nadal
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Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
Ian Schrager -
If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let's get the dialogue going.
Wayne McGregor -
If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future.
Eckhart Tolle -
Shakespeare, in a play, brought in a number of men saying they had suffered shipwreck in Bohemia, where there is no sea by some 100 miles.
Ben Jonson -
The martyrdom of Lalaji has shaken the Congressmen. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is planning something solid to be presented for adoption in the coming session of the Congress, but I am not sure if he would be able to do something.
Bhagat Singh
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
Jack Reed -
Just displaying your resume online, which LinkedIn lets you do, isn't enough.
Caroline Ghosn -
James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.
Montgomery Clift -
I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through.
Ben Mezrich -
Unlike regular digital or film cameras, which can only record a scene in two dimensions, light field cameras capture all of the light rays traveling in every direction through a scene. This means that some aspects of a picture can be manipulated after the fact.
Ren Ng -
When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
Stephen Covey