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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We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
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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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Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
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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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I've had the struggles; I've had emotional times, boring times, fun times, passionate times.
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Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.
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When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
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The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.
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If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.
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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.
