Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.
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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.
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Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
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That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.
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One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.
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To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.
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Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
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If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.
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Think about it: everybody you know, everyone that you meet, also know about 250 people. So every time you cultivate a relationship with one new person, you have actually expanded your personal inventory by 250 people - every single time.
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The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.
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Idle time is the devil's play.
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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
