Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.
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Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
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Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
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If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
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Defend your opinion only if it can be shown to be true, not because it is your opinion.
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What's really great about the Archie Comics as a whole is that everybody is relatable.
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Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?
