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Stephen Covey Quotes

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Family Time Television Say

You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.

Attention You Important Real Pay

For Nebraska and for America, I will continue my commitment to our national security, economic security, and family security.

Jeff Fortenberry

Family Commitment America Security

We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.

Car Time End Back Race Little

Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins.

Family Agriculture Born Boy Farming

Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.

Live Opportunity Smart Team Win Out

All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.

Life Dog Music Man Saying Back

London cabs always dis me. I purposefully give them a good tip because I'm trying to straighten up the image where they don't want to pick up some shady-looking, bummy kid like myself. I'm trying to teach them that if you pick up the bummy-looking kid, you still get tipped, man. But they still jerk me around.

Good Myself Man Me Trying You

I don't think there's hardly a comic out there that does clean material all the way around. There's a couple of guys that are clean, but I'm not one of them.

Think Way Clean Out Around Guys

Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Year Quantity Dollar Smaller Spent

Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it.

Science Wait World Tools Living Out

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.

Mark Zuckerberg

Gratitude Service Quality Happy Look

I was a big party guy in my twenties, and kind of a playboy as well. I adopted a lot of values and goals that were fairly superficial and, in many cases, self-destructive. They looked cool and sounded sexy on the surface, but underneath, there was no real meaning going on, just a lot of escapism.

Goals Cool Sexy Meaning Values Kind

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