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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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'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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Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere.
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From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.
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To a bookish boy in a Boston suburb in the mid-1970s, the lyrics of Cole Porter came as something of a revelation.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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We all long for someone to tell us who we are. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.
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You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.
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The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
