Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
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It is better to be likable than to be talented.
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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At first I thought it was infatuation. But woo, it's lasted so long. Now I find myself wanting to marry you and take you home. Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh. You, you, you, you send meI know you send meI know you send me honest you do.
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I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my dreams always come true. I dreamed I was the heavyweight champion of the world. I am the heavyweight champion of the world.
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...the relatively unconscious man driven by his natural impulses because, imprisoned in his familiar world, he clings to the commonplace, the obvious, the probable, the collectively valid, using for his motto: 'Thinking is difficult. Therefore, let the herd pronounce judgement.'
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I've danced hula since I was 5. My mom danced hula as well. It's been in my family from far back and really connected me to my ancestors.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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My favorite meal to make is seared ahi, and my wife does the most amazing pear salad.
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I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
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I think the danger is to just look through that lens, to lose a sense of perspective and rush toward harsh regulations that are unnecessary. Some regulation will be necessary, some changes in accounting rules.
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Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!
