Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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It is our family's hope that the true legacy and context of Malcolm X's life continues to be shared with people from all walks of life in a positive manner that helps promote the goals and ideals for which Malcolm X so passionately advocated.
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The power of God is the worship He inspires.... The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.
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I have made it quite clear – and so did Mr Prior when he was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland – that a unified Ireland was one solution. That is out. A second solution was confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out. That is a derogation from sovereignty.
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Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president.
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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
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I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.
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The greatest thing you can do for your children is love your spouse.
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When things are easy, I hate it.
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I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.
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Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?
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He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.
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More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
