Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.
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I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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The American people have made it abundantly clear that they want less government, not more. They want problems solved in a bipartisan manner, not the creation of new problems.
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I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
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Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.
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Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within our consciousness'. All knowledge, all energy, all information is within us, not outside of us. it always has been and always will be.
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You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
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Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
