Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
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God hears a mother's prayer.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
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The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.
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I'm tired of being considered property.
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The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
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I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.
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An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up the reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.
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People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.
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One of my favorite credits is to say that I worked behind Marilyn Monroe, and I love saying that. She was phenomenal.
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As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.
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Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.
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Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
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Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.
