Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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The success of 'Scrubs' allowed me to pursue anything I felt passionately about without having to worry about money. It allowed me to spend my summer work shopping my show at a nonprofit theater.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
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I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
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Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?
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A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
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Even when I get dressed up to go out, I never use too much makeup.
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Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.
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I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.
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When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
