Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
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In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
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I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I can't bear kissing scenes.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.
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Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost.
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Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.
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I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.
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It's always fun to come in and mix up a show that's been on for awhile.
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I have no idea why my mom picked Bob, and I've never asked her. My name used to get slaughtered all the time by other people. I was 'Desmond' or 'Damon' or `Demon.' So Bob's cool.
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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
