Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
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When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
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I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
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It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.
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I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.
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You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won't feel like I'm alone.
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I am Minnesotan.
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By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.
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Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
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Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception.
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I'm just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that's what they pay me to do.
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The U.S. culture is individualistic, competitive, optimistic, and pragmatic. We believe that the basic unit of society is the individual, whose rights have to be protected at all costs. We are entrepreneurial and admire individual accomplishment. We thrive on competition. Optimism and pragmatism show up in the way we are oriented toward the short term and in our dislike of long-range planning. We do not like to fix things and improve them while they are still working. We prefer to run things until they break because we believe we can then fix them or replace them. We are arrogant and deep down believe we can fix anything—“The impossible just takes a little longer.” We are impatient and, with information technology’s ability to do things faster, we are even more impatient. Most important of all, we value task accomplishment over relationship building and either are not aware of this cultural bias or, worse, don’t care and don’t want to be bothered with it.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.
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When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.
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Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?
