Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Patience is emotional diligence.

Stephen Covey

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• Diligence

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• Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

  

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• Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

  

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• I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

  

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• I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

  

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• With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.

  

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• The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.

  

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• I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.

  

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• I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.

  

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• The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.

  

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• I think life is a chain of events.

  

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• There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.

  

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• I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.

  

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• I've always had a teenage thread running through my music.

  

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• I like seeing what the comedian thinks is funny, not just what they think I'll think is funny.

  

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• The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

  

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• The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.

  

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• In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

  

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• When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

  

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• When I'm filming something, I quite forget that it's all still got to come together and be edited. I'm so engrossed in trying to do the best I can on a day to day basis that I forget that people will see it and judge it.

  

  Yasmin Paige
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• Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.

  

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• Patience is emotional diligence.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Emotional
  • Diligence