Sean Covey Quotes
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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There are many guys out there who look like me - you know, brunettes with long hair. There are thousands. But I think the difference is that I am a real polo player, who does endorsements for Ralph Lauren on the side, and I've always looked at it that way.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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Alexander North Whitehead is supposed to have said of Bertrand Russell: 'Bertie thinks me muddleheaded and I think Bertie simple-minded.'
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Any future which is not beautiful is unacceptable.
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For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.
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What we do is service a story first, and then you figure out how to pay for it later. If the narrative isn't your primary focus, then the movie is going to become diluted, and you don't have a movie that is as good as it could be, so it probably won't make as much money.
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We must continue to foster relevant and constructive dialogue among Israeli and Palestinian communities.
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I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.
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In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.
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I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.
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A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
