Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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I'm only a human being.
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
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When I do get married again, I'm just going to take time off.
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I think we realized what was at stake.
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Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
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You think beautiful girls are going to stay in style forever? I should say not! Any minute now they're going to be out! Finished! Then it'll be my turn!
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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.
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From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.
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The weight is just a tool. Do you focus on the hammer or the nail? You better focus on the thing you're trying to hit.
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I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.
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Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish.
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The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.
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If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.
