Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I'm just not very funny.
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I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
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Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
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Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.
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Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
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Man geht immer die gleichen Wege des Denkens wie vorher. Nur scheinen sie mit Rosen bestreut.
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'I’ll tell you,' she said softly. 'But you won’t like it.'He looked away from her. 'I asked for the truth. Whether I like it or not, I have to know.'
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I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.
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Πρὸς κέντρα μὴ λάκτιζε.
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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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I don't feel comfortable talking about the specifics of how it all comes together, but the truth is, I don't ever know when Michelle Obama is going to wear my clothes! She, like everyone else, picks her outfits and wears them when she wants - sometimes two or three times. It's not ever calculated.
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A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.
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One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.
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The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
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True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
