Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.

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• I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.

  

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• Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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• I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.

  

  Larry Brown
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• Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
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• In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

  

  Ed Sheeran
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• In the midst of the turmoil, the fear, the anxiety that's in our nation and in our world, as I was walking and meditating, I heard the voice of God. I've heard that voice many times; it's familiar to me, and there's no way that I can fail to understand it's His voice because I'm familiar with it.

  

  Oral Roberts
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• Yes, I don't believe that the inter-Korean relationship has, quote, 'deteriorated' since I assumed office. Rather I believe that the relationship between the two Koreas is entering into a new phase - a time of transition. And so I think that the North Koreans are trying to see what they can build with this, with my new administration.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
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• Anybody who cannot learn to hear by feeling will not go very far in church.

  

  Seymour Dilworth Young
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• It’s a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best—not a percent better or a percent worse than that.

  

  Kai Greene
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• The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• I'm not saying it's the city's fault. But I'm saying it's the city's fault that those two dogs are walking around the city attacking people. And I think that the city should do something about helping her to the best of their ability.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
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• Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

  

  Archibald Alexander
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• Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.

  

  Elena Kagan
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• All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.

  

  Betty Smith
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• So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you're never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don't think we can assure that.

  

  Alan Chambers
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• We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.

  

  Stephen Covey
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