Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.
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There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.
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Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.
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I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.
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We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
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I was basically the person at Disney World that was in charge of clearing the park when it was closed... I was the guy... telling them to 'get the hell out and have a magical day.'
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This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans.
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Forget the telly, we just go to the crib, watch a movie in the Jacuzzi and smoke Ls while you do me.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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I try to work to improve myself every day and I try to do on the pitch what I do during the training sessions.
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We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.
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You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
