Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
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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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I don't like controversy.
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The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.
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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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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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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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People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
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All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age group on my Facebook page is 25- to 35-year-old women.
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Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures.
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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
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'Alyx,' she said, 'you're going to be a legend.''I already am, Captain,' she said.
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Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
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There's no such thing as a life that is not normal, or, there's no such thing as a life that is not abnormal. We all have amazing lives; we all have very dull lives.
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Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.
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I am going to be respectful of you, and I want you to be respectful of me. We are all Democrats, and we need to act like it.
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Who should have spent their money on a brain implant?
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All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms.
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As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.
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My mom, she sometimes resided in the space between irony and sincerity.
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Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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When I'm at home alone, I run up the stairs naked. It's quite funny.
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If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
