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Day Quotes by Stephen Covey
- People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until…
- Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three…
- Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How…
- Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be…
- To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay…
- Whether or not we belong to a church or service organization or have a job that provides meaningful service opportunities, not a day goes by…
- An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also…
- During the first few minutes in lift-off, the astronauts were strictly controlled and were powerfully buffeted by the forces of nature struggling to keep them…
- Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed…
- All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure…
- It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we…
- Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental…
- How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each…
- Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.
- Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
- If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its…
- In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is…
More Day Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong