Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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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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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
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I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.
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I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
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Basically, I'm a free spirit. I'm kind of an Everywoman.
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
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I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
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The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.
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There's a film there in competition [of Sundance Film Festival] called To The Bone. It's directed by Marti Noxon. I have a supporting role in it. It got really well received. It's a really great film.
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Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills.
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Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
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Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.
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Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.
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I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.
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What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
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The only way the corporate Body of Christ will fulfill the mission Christ has given it is for individual Christians to have a vision for fulfilling that mission personally.
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Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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I will act as if I do make a difference.
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Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
