Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you'll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code.
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There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.
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The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.
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The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.
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There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
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I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.
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I'm happy; I'm a happy person.
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Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.
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I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.
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If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
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A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.
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There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.
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Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.
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I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.
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I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.
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Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.
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I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.
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There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.
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A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
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When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.
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Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.
