Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.
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I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna lead you there. So it's hard to find great songs.
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Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
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This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.
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A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.
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We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.
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If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
