Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely 'timber!'
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Everything does go in a circle.
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The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It's totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of fine, talcum-powderlike dust mixed with a complete variety of pebbles, rocks, and boulders. Many pebbles, fewer rocks, and even fewer boulders naturally make up its surface. The dust is a very fine, overall dark gray. And with no air molecules to separate the dust, it clings together like cement.
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I was sitting at home one day and I got a call that Riccardo Tisci was considering me for the face of the Givenchy Spring/Summer 2014 campaign, and I said, "Are you kidding?" and that was the end of the conversation. I'm a really big fan.
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It's so hard for women to be happy for one another, like genuinely happy. Once you find that, you know you've found true SELF happiness.
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Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter. O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
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Pussy Riot is against the cult of consumerism and the commercialization of art. Our performances were always open for everyone and anyone can see our video clips for free on the Internet.
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Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods with smoky wings, entangles them.
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Jesus matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity." (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning)
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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
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If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.
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A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.
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When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.
