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Quotes
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Authors
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Stephen Covey
"Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems."
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Stephen Covey
#Success Quotes
#Opportunity Quotes
#People Quotes
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“My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.”
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“All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.”
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“To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?”
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“I'm getting back to my old roots.”
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“It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.”
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“My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.”
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“I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.”
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“He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.”
