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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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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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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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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If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.
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Years ago - I used to be an actor - I was in a production of Vaclav Havel's 'Temptation,' and when we started rehearsals, he was in prison. When we closed the show, he was running for president. And it felt incredibly timely and important and also this lucky thing.
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'Dancing With the Stars' was fun, and it opened me up to dancing.
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I love anything by Sisley for face and Lancaster for body.
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I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.
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I'm a really extreme person, and balance is probably the hardest thing for me to maintain.
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Books and people are hard to compare.
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There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.
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You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.
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In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.
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Our passion is our strength.
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I want to be in a 'Final Destination' movie.
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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
