Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
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Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.
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I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
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I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.
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The Sichuan disaster is not the first nor the most wrongful. But all the details of this tragedy will be forgotten, and once again it will be like nothing ever happened. Eventually all these disasters will together create a bizarre miracle called civilization and evolution.
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I don't like my physique at all.
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The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.
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City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.
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Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.
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For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.
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There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.
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Tim is learning about his high tolerance of others’ inappropriate behavior and is beginning to get free of this often subtle form of mistreatment.
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At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change it. It is always the same. It has been the same, it is the same, it will be the same. But to say that we know the truth and that we have the truth is really a self-deception. If you had known the absolute truth there would have been no problems and everybody would have said the same thing. There would be no discussions, no arguments, no fights and wars. But when we don't know the absolute truth then we can find out our own mental conceptions as the truth. But this mind is so limited.
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Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.
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Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.
