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 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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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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I don't want to get too detailed and personal, but my parents got divorced when I was about nine. A lot of that had to do with my dad being on the road and that disconnect.
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I want people to know that I am having fun. That's the biggest compliment I can get is when people tell me I'm having a blast out there - if they only knew. I'm having the time of my life every night.
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'You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both'
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Old-style management is irrelevant.
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The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
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It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.
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If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.
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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
