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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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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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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The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.
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There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.
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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
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There is never any justification for violence. There is no any justification for hatred. There is no any justification for murder. Those who indulge in violence for whatever reason are themselves changed, and the purity of their purpose adulterated.
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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.
