Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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I never thought about being famous.
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When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
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'I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me,' I said. 'I want to be myself.''Don’t be a child.'I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. 'What?''You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I’m tired of your whining.'
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I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.
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We are therefore driven by both basic survival instincts and rational thought.
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That's what I used to enjoy so much: Bringing a record home, having it arrive in the mailbox. Having the whole experience of hearing it as you're holding it and looking at it and reading the liner notes, if they're anything.
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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
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the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
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In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.
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But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see.
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There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.
