Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
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Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.
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The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!
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I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark place at the time.
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You never know what'll happen in politics.
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Beauty is subjective and should not be limited to only what we see on the outside.
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Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
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You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.
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We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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We knew we had the resources to send our kids to whatever school was best for them.
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Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,Lead Thou me on!The night is dark, and I am far from home-Lead Thou me on!Keep Thou my feet: I do not ask to seeThe distant scene,-one step enough for me.
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By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.
