Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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I find that I can't work and listen to radio – either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.
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I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.
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I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
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For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
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The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.
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When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
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I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.
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Est deus in nobis; agitante calescimus illo:impetus hic sacrae semina mentis habet.
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The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.
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Changing the world doesn't require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi's teachers paid? How much did it cost to give Dr. Martin Luther King the books that catalyzed his mind and actions?
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Error is multiform, whereas success is possible in one way only; so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.
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Success in one role can't justify failure in another.
