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.
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Working gets in the way of living.
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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.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.
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You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
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Tackling one thing at a time, I have managed better than I would have thought possible.
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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.
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...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)
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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.
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Our policy is not built on envy or hatred, but on liberty for the individual man or woman.
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We Marxist communists are profoundly opposed to the anarchist doctrine. This doctrine is erroneous
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.
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It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!
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Creation is everything you do. Make something.
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We're gone for 280, almost 300 days a year. So 70 to 80 days I'm home every year. Being an artist, you just gotta be ready to miss certain things, like Halloween and all these kind of things that you used to be able to be free for. Birthdays, all this kind of stuff.
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I often have the feeling that acting is really not difficult, because all I do is I just listen. I just listen. I just listen to what there is. And if there's nothing, then I listen to nothing. If there's a chair, and it's empty, I listen to an empty chair, and I will respond to it.
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I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting.
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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.
