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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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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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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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
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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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J.Crew's a great brand.
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I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
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I can taste a meal and tell you every spice that's in there. I have taste buds like Betty Grable's legs - they should be insured with Lloyd's of London.
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I want to stay where I am. I'm stoked to be a country artist.
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God did not create religion. God created man. Man created religion.
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The One Ford plan drives the business to get PGA, Profitable Growth for All, meaning that every year we increase the profits and cash flow. So how do we do that? We serve all the markets around the world with a complete family of vehicles and use the One Ford Plan.
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At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our task of bringing rich, affordable, reliable messaging to every phone in the world. That's our product, and that's our passion. Your data isn't even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it.
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I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.
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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.
