Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
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When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.
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He'll never fall in loveHe swears, as he runs his fingers through his hair.I'm laughing 'cause I hope he's wrong.And I don't think it ever crossed his mind.He tells a joke, I fake a smileThat I know all his favorite songs.
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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Supposed former infatuation junkie, I sink three pointers and you wax poetically.
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Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.
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Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.
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And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for that.
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There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this book is not a single individual, but is at least three different writers/editors, who did their layered work over a period of 25 to 30 years.
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It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.
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As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
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Are we, in this age of civilization and political progress... to roll back the whole current of human thought, and again return to the mere brute force which prevails between beasts of prey, as the only method of settling questions between men?
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Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.
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We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.
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In planes, everybody pees on the floor. Fact.
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Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.
