Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
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I dreamed big. So it's so great to be living my own dream. I'm working in an industry that I want to work in, and I'm doing something that I love every day. So I feel really lucky to have had so many opportunities.
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When I write music, it's very strange: maybe it's normal, but I see things in songs in different colors.
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I think Dirk [Gently] thinks that he's a brilliant detective, but he's the worst detective, ever. He does have this particular skill, which I suppose you might call a really bad superpower because it's just not very helpful. He is able to sense the connections between things and he's nearly always right, but the problem is that he never knows what to do with any of those messages that he receives from the universe, so he just acts on things and gets himself into terrible trouble, all the time.
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We have spoken to the Italian administration at the highest level and they have agreed that these allegations will be fully investigated as part of the wider investigation into police malpractice by the Genoa Public Prosecutor.
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The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.
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He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.
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The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases.
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Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.
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I am just taking the top fights out there for me. People will get bored seeing me every day knock someone out.
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.
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In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.
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A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.
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I think if you asked people "what's the biggest problem in your life?" They'd say, "I just don't have time for anything!" And at our fingertips, if it isn't e-mail, it's our Blackberry, and it's our iPods and telephones - we never stop. We never take those moments to stop the stimulus to find out "what's going on in there? What's really happening?" And then things start to build up. And then we are almost afraid to slow down.
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To ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.
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We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
