Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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Call Him by whatever name you will, and He will respond.
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There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.
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Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.
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I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!
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They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
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But there's no reason to wait until I'm grown up when there's so much I can do now. So many Americans take so much for granted, so it's only right to help someone who has so little. That's why I'm sponsoring a four-year-old Dalit student, so Ayisath can have a good education all the way from the start.
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O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.
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I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
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It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.
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Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates.
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Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.
