Stephen Covey Quotes

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Stephen Covey

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ChangeFreedomPowerImagination

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

John Muir

EarthSameDustCreatorUsCommon

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

Robert McChesney

PennyReturnThosePublicThemGets

I think you could argue that President Obama could have watched a little cable news... I do think that there is value in understanding where the conversation is and having a little less detachment where the popular conversation is.

Jeff Zucker

ValueThinkUnderstandingYouNews

That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors!

Michael Connelly

WritingEasyJournalismOverFiction

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

Stewart Stern

MoneyChildhoodPeopleMeWriting

With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it... you're going to break some use cases.

Mike Krieger

ChangePeopleInterestingYouWay

My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry.

Joseph Bruchac

FamilyFatherMotherSideEnglish

On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions.

Jon Landau

GreatLightListeningSparkFirst

Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Republican - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. And I worked with him and helped him.

Donald Trump

MeYouKnowConservativeRepublican

There is clearly a move among some tea-party people, not all of them, to always elect or nominate the most conservative person, and under that scenario, I don't think Scott Brown would probably be their first choice.

Corey Lewandowski

PeopleThinkChoicePersonFirst

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

Pitbull

BusinessTalentIndustryPercent

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

Susan Orlean

LifeFunnyMy LifeHighPopularity

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