Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
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One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even the term 'fashion' is about change. It's about newness. And what that newness means is different every 10 years, every five years.
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There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
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If I was going to get beat up, I wanted to be indoors where it was warm.
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There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
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Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda's international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.
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The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history.
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When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag
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My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
