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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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 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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Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
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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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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
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It is one thing to be against unilateralism and against nonhumanitarian interventionism - but it is quite another thing to be against humanitarian interventionism.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
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Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.
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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
