Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I love Japan; it's very special.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.
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Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.
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You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you - All Of You - have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.
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Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison.
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Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.
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Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.
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There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us.
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Stevie Wonder makes my heart happy and is my spirit animal. That is all.
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My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.
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People say to me, 'Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange.'
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When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.
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It's ridiculous having the pros in an amateur sport, but at the same time, there's a lot of pros who are going to struggle over three rounds.
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In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
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He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents.
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The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.
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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
