Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
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The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
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The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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We have known Hillary Clinton both professionally and personally for close to 20 years, dating back to before President Bill Clinton's first trip to Africa in 1998 - a trip that they both acknowledge changed their lives and gave considerable meaning to their post-White House years and to the activities of the Clinton Foundation.
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The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.
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I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
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There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.
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I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.
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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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This is the essential importance of the Alliance for Better Campaigns' efforts backed by Common Cause. It is our campaign to give free time to all legitimate candidates. … What our campaign asks is that the television industry yield just a tiny percentage of that windfall, less than 1 percent, to fund free airtime.
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I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.
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I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
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Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
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I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone.
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Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on a regular basis might be the best investment of time you ever make.
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What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you
