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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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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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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The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
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I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.
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Let no man be the object of your jealousy, and when you compete with one another let it not be for the personal advantage of this man or that, but to ensure the safety and prosperity of the city.
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The best thing ever is when some guy in his 50s taps me on the shoulder and says, 'I just want to let you know I hate my job, I hate my wife, and I come home and I watch reruns of your show and it's the only half hour of the day when I laugh and I forget how miserable life is.'
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To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
