Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
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Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
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I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.
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The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.
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The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.
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I have nothing against Ronaldo.
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It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
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I actually believed if I behaved myself and if I made straight A's and if I was good enough, I could save my dad's life. And every single time he had a heart attack, I knew what I had done that caused it.
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I feel like I don't really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.
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The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.
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I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
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Read everything. Write all the time. And if you can do anything else that gives you equal pleasure and allows you to sleep soundly at night, do that instead. The writing life is an odd one, to say the least.
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Unlike national markets, which tend to be supported by domestic regulatory and political institutions, global markets are only 'weakly embedded'. There is no global lender of last resort, no global safety net, and of course, no global democracy. In other words, global markets suffer from weak governance, and are therefore prone to instability, inefficiency, and weak popular legitimacy.
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Let me deal here with what General Motors includes and with the responsibility that rests on its management.
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Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
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The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities
