Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!

Stephen Covey

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• Dependent

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• I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

  

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• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

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• The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.

  

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• Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

  

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• I want Bolivians to support their president.

  

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• All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

  

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• When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of how right it felt for me.

  

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• You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Emotional
  • Weakness
  • Dependent