Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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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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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
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I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction.
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Normally I'm not like a big TV person. I never use my DVR.
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I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds
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I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.
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A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
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Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.
