Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
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If I weren't a Jew (in the sense in which I use the word) then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.
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If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.
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We don't want to just be known for what we did. We want to be known for what we do and what we did. We've been highly productive since 2000 when 'Crush' came out.
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Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.
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Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.
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I love Italian food.
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I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way.
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The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.
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My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
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I think clothes hang beautifully on thin women.
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The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily.
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Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.
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The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
