Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.Stephen Covey
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Working gets in the way of living.
Omar Sharif -
I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.
Bayard Taylor -
I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
Ovid -
You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.
Halima Aden -
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston
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History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.
Aberjhani -
...if the music stops and there's only the sound of the rainAll the hope and glory - All the sacrifice in vain(And) If love remains, though everything is lostWe will pay the price, but we will not count the cost - Bravado (1991)
Neil Peart Rush -
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real. I mean, I would probably shock Lee Strasberg.
Laurence Olivier -
Our policy is not built on envy or hatred, but on liberty for the individual man or woman.
Margaret Thatcher -
We Marxist communists are profoundly opposed to the anarchist doctrine. This doctrine is erroneous
Leon Trotsky -
Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.
Albert Einstein
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I'm not in the slightest wanting to attack the women's movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist discourse, there is a tendency to just label discrimination against women - and embedded assumptions about them - as misogyny and think 'job done.'
Mary Beard -
When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.
Jeff Bridges -
I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.
Joe Eszterhas -
If people don't love what you're doing, that doesn't mean you're wrong.
Albert Brooks -
Fortune favors the audacious.
Desiderius Erasmus -
If you stick around long enough, you're going to become fashionable eventually.
Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
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I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.
Eric Cantona -
Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me.
Lynda Resnick -
I wanted to be like Jo March in 'Little Women.' I wanted to be married to a man who would give me lots of sons.
Anjelica Huston -
Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
Eddie Murphy -
Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.
Sofia Villani Scicolone -
Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.
Stephen Covey