Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
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All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
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I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.
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I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.
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Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.
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Iraq's invasion of Kuwait defies every principle for which the United Nations stands. If we let it succeed, no small country can ever feel safe again. The law of the jungle would take over from the rule of law.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.
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I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10.
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The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.
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Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.
