Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
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The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.
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You can forgive yourself a great deal.
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There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.
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Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
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I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
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I work so hard that I forget to take care of myself.
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Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.
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I find my vocabulary is quite a lot better when I'm hungover. I feel like I unlock a key of words that I don't usually use in day-to-day life.
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I'm very grateful for the way that I feel when I play. I feel very powerful, I feel fast, I feel unstoppable, and that's because of my body.
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We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.
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After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
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When I got to know Margot Robbie on the set of 'The Legend of Tarzan,' I learned just how important it is to be lovely to everyone you meet.
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Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.
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I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.
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For me, that was a hard scene [in "Fences"] to do twenty-something times, which (laughing), I counted. That was difficult, but once I did it, I felt like I could do anything.
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I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning. Linda Ronstadt
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Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
