Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
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There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.
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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Beings who are so uniquely constituted must necessarily express themselves in other ways than ordinary men. It is impossible that with souls so differently modified, they should not carry over into the expression of their feelings and ideas the stamp of those modifications.
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All in the waning light she stood, The star of perfect womanhood.
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Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
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To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
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Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.
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I'd seen Jose Padilha's 'Elite Squad 1' and '2', and I'd seen his documentary, 'Bus 174'.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.
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I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God is beauty; but what God actually is, whether the maker of all things, or the fragrance of all things, or just a dream in our own hearts, I have not the art to know. Neither have you, I believe; nor any man, nor any spirit of our humble stature.
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Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.
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Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.