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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• Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

  

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• When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.

  

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• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  

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• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

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• I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

  

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• Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.

  

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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.

  

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

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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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 think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.

  

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• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

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• I want Bolivians to support their president.

  

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• I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.

  

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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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• I have never had to travel more than thirty seconds from home to office, and it's because of that that I've been able to maintain, really a family life that has nurtured and sustained me during this time [of presidency].

  

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• The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

  

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• In my era, where I'm from, I only had Donald Whiteside. He's from Englewood and he's the only one that came out of Englewood. Other than him, I really didn't have anyone else to look up to that was from my area. So in seeing him, I never gave up hope, just kept playing and then I realized that I might have a future in basketball.

  

  Derrick Rose
  • Up
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  • Future

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

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Emotional
  • Weakness
  • Dependent