Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right.
Stephen Covey
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
Abraham Lincoln
You either make dust or eat dust.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
Malachy McCourt
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
Yehudi Menuhin
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
A. E. Waite
The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
Tariq Ali
People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.
Carine Roitfeld
Once I had left 'Twin Peaks' and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, 'No, no, we can't do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.' I'm like, 'No. I've already done it, and it worked, so I don't understand what you're saying.'
Madchen Amick
Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.
Natalie Goldberg
When they said, 'Why is Floyd Mayweather not fighting Manny Pacquiao?' it was because Manny Pacquiao had a boss. I don't have a boss.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
Barbara Walters
I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
Karin Slaughter
I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.
J. Cole
I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious.
John Shelby Spong
I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.
Benjamin Rush
The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
Adam Mansbach
We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right.
Stephen Covey
