Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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My family and friends treat me as they always have.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.
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Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for wine, but I very much gave a lot of thought to doing a sports-video blog instead.
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My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.
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My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood.
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I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.
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When you challenge me, I like my chances in a fistfight. On the field, I use the same approach. I'm going to win. And I'll do it by any means necessary. If you're not willing to go that route, don't come my way.
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Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.
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I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.
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It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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I wrote my senior essay on the Santa Fe Writer's Colony and my dissertation on sacred landscapes - the Grand Canyon, the Dakota Badlands. As a setting, I love the West. I just love that western landscape.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter.
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I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
