Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other.
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I've always been a dreamer.
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months.
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I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.
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I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.
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I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.
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As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.
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That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.
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Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
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I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.
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Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.
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It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.
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To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
