Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
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If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.
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All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.
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I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for a little league team.
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Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
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You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.
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What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.
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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
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If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.
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I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.
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Statement earrings and statement necklaces each deserve their own moment. I never wear the two together; it looks overdone.
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Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
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Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.
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I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.
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Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.
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Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
