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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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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The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
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It means so much to me to see Caitlyn Jenner coming out, just by being her authentic self, staying true to who she is, and just living her life.
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All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.
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I hope not! I hope I will be able to find someone who is willing to live with my crazy lifestyle and crazy ideas.
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I don't really ever worry about what anyone else does and I certainly don't worry about what anyone else says about me.
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Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.
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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.
