Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Whether or not we belong to a church or service organization or have a job that provides meaningful service opportunities, not a day goes by that we can't at least serve one other human being by making deposits of unconditional love.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
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I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
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Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.
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Everyone that I've talked to who's been to space has thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and what you often hear them say is: It was great, but we just had to come home.
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It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.
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I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.
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Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!
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As anyone who has started a company knows, it's pretty common not to see any income for months.
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Lord knows, I love a brainless pop song.
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Replacing human vision is more than just a tool: we need to understand how that affects the brain.
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Men and women should be paid equally.
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I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.
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I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.
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God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
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Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home.
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Whether or not we belong to a church or service organization or have a job that provides meaningful service opportunities, not a day goes by that we can't at least serve one other human being by making deposits of unconditional love.
