Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
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To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.
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Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
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All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
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As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but more importantly, the United States has the strength of scientific and technological talent, and managerial expertise.
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Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.
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Since I was a child, my father was sick. I've always known him to be that way. That's why I'm proud of him - he has a disease he's obviously struggling with, but he's not letting it stop him from doing what he wants to do.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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Suppose there are some things that we don't understand about the universe, but if you understand human intelligence and you understand the gaps in our abilities to think about things, maybe we can engineer in a computer more advanced intelligences that can help augment our ability to think.
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We have been talking today on how we can send a message to the people in both communities, the Islamic and European, that we need this not to happen again...We strongly hope that people will be now sensible to understand that.
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When I bet on horses, I never lose. Why? I bet on all the horses.
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
