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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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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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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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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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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My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.
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The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known. But when I see other people's upbringings, I think, 'Hmm... mine was rather unconventional. Quite different!'
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Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
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I've always been so interested in both the visual beauty of mollusks and the tactile feel of them. As a kid, I collected them all the time.
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I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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It's indescribable, I've waited so long for this to happen
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Know what is in your heart. But definitely go to school and learn as much as you can, and if wrestling is still what you want, find a good wrestling school and kind of learn as much information about it as you can. If I did it, this tiny thing, anyone can do it.
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Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.
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Seek more opportunities to put more love in the world.
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He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.
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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.
