Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?
Quotes to Explore
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
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For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
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A good sign for me, that I'm a good spot mentally, is when I'm super prolific. And I just wake up every day excited to make or replicate music in some way. That's really nice.
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When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.
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Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
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If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.
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The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.
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Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?
