Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.
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Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.
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The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don't need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together.
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To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
