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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For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.
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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 only had a telephone conversation with [Donald Trump], whereas [Shinzō ] Abe met with him in person.
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If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.
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I've always had a chip on my shoulder. It kind of drives me. It's something that allows me to train harder, train longer, work better.
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Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.
