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Stephen Covey Quotes

What is common sense isn't common practice.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: October 24, 1932 - July 16, 2012

Topics

Practice Common Sense Common Sense

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.

Funny Thought Doing Go Way Write

I'm very organic in nature with my creativity. It just kind of wraps around me, or it's a moment I have, a click of inspiration. It's never calculated.

Nature Moment Creativity Me Kind

I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.

Good Father Myself Best I Am Doctor

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

Poetry Me Writing End Language Kind

I don't have an end game. Being a celestial being, I live for the moment to fight the Great War, and that is to light the darkness.

Live Great Light Moment Darkness

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

Candle Think Wings Person Human Get

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

Good Industrial Revolution Revolution

The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in the very earliest times; yes, the twelve disciples bound to their Lord in love, to do his work forever, that was a church, a Christian family.

Work Family Love World Church True

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

Hope World I Can Events Level Raise

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.

Clifford Geertz

Doing Straightforward Most Should

I'm competitive at everything.

Everything Competitive

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Childhood Genius Will Recovery

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