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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Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
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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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It's really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don't have as much responsibility when you're acting, but you have more fun. But then you miss having that responsibility, and so you go back and torture yourself and make a movie.
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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 have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since childhood.
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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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I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
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For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.
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I've realized that being happy is a choice.
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Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we’re left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it. Just stand there trembling, not moving. Assuming the worst that can happen. Or we step forward into the unknown, and assume it will be brilliant.
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Isn't Scientology one of those things where you really like someone and once you hear they're a Scientologist, you're like 'I'm out'?
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Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
