Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.
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Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples
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In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
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Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...
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It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.
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It gives me a lot of joy when I wear my design at a show and someone asks me who designed my costume.
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If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.
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One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
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When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.
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Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000 Olympics, which, as a result of American-led pressure, was awarded to Sydney.
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How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
