Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.
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I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.
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In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
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It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
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If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.
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An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
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As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
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Before I even came into office, I said that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was a priority.
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Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all.
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[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it; why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.
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I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.
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Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire.
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Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.
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What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.
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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
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The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!
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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
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You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won’t create a consciousness.
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Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.
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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
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Priority is a function of context.
