Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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We always talk about how you have to build a brand from the inside out, not the outside in. Brands are not wrappers. Brands are based on the values of the founders, and then they spread to the people who work for the company, and then that psychological contract is spread to the customer.
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.
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Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
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I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.
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His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.
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I love singing and I think I have a really nice voice, but I don't think I have an unbelievable singing voice. I think I have a great character voice.
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But there is no perfect guide for discerning God's movement in the world, Contrary to what many conservatives say, the Bible is not a blueprint on this matter. It is a valuable symbol for point to God's revelation in Jesus, but it is not self-interpreting. We are thus place in an existential situation of freedom in which the burden is on us to make decisions without a guaranteed ethical guide.
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Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.
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You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it.
