Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.
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My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.
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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
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I used to go to Cold Stone Creamery, get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.
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We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—
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I treat everybody equal, and so I want to be sure that my listeners and my followers do the same if they're gonna represent me. And if I'm gonna represent them, then I also want to do it in a good way.
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If we roam the whole area, eventually we're going to find it. It's out there somewhere.
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Whether success will crown the effort, or whether God wills it otherwise, it is not for man to discuss; it is enough that the work is there, and it is our duty to do it.
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Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.
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Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.
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I don't agree that we have to win the Champions League to be a success.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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You can pay for school, but you can't buy class
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A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.
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We are always imagining something, It is practically impossible to be awake without imagining something. Then why not imagine something at all times that will inspire the powers within us to do greater and greater things?
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Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.
