Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.
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When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!
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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
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First of all, learn to laugh at yourself. That's the best way to enjoy yourself, you know, and not to spend much time in the mirror, that's another way.
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real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.
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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
