Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
I have disassociated myself from that book.
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I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
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I was an intern on a film called 'The Long Walk Home.'
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.
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The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater.
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I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
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It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
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It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!
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What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.
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An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life.'
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An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.
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Why there are so many great actresses, so few great woman writers? The erotic urge that lies at the bottom of all art has a feminine and a masculine character. Feminine is the urge to be; masculine the urge to do. Interpretative art always has more of the feminine about it
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The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.
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As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
