Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it's hard to establish trust with others if you can't trust yourself.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I'm also white and have white relatives. It's very interesting and can be really hard.
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You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.
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I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young – most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.
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When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
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I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
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It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!
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The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.
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It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
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It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.
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With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very much on your own.
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I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.
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I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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I've made it very clear that building, maintaining, and fixing Maryland's roads and bridges is our top transportation priority, and it is a top priority of our administration.
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I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up - I didn't have an agent or anything.
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Donny Hathaway's 'For All We Know' is the song that I've sung the longest. It is a beautiful song about living in the moment and appreciating this very second. That is the song I did for my 'Rent' audition.
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People will call you anything. It's up to you either to pick up the phone or not.
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The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.
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I meditate daily, and I think it's sort of a life skill.
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After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.
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The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it's hard to establish trust with others if you can't trust yourself.
