Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet human needs, and to enjoy spontaneous moments on a daily basis.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
Vidal Sassoon
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
Venus Williams
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I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
Taylor Schilling
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
Zig Ziglar
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
Youssou N'Dour
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
Daisy Berkowitz
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Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.
Adam McKay
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Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
P. G. Wodehouse
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I love 'Glee.'
Cameron Mackintosh
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The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.
Viktor Orban
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My features are completely ethnic.
Naomi Campbell
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
Yehuda Berg
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I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.
Jackie Earle Haley
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
Nadia Comaneci
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I think it's very difficult to generalize as to why, in a particular league or a particular industry, somebody has or has not come out. We certainly don't want a player to come out for our sake. It should be what's right for him and something that he has to be comfortable with.
Gary Bettman
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I wanted to really ingrain myself in the culture and the people. And I apologize about having an allergy to dairy products that gives me some irritable bowels, but other than that, I mean, I've embraced just about everything else Wisconsin - especially when it comes to sports, but also the people and the interactions with our fans.
Aaron Rodgers
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
Quentin Crisp
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I remember going to a son's friend's bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate was right at the beginning of Genesis. It was not about a fall from grace or a fall from perfection; it was about an awakening into consciousness, which is what it means to be human.
Claire Messud
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Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.
William Shakespeare
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
Queen Latifah
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That was important, that he had a knack for winning and a knack for developing, that he knew the road it took.
Ned Colletti
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'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet human needs, and to enjoy spontaneous moments on a daily basis.
Stephen Covey