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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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
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I grew up in New York.
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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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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
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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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It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.
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Growth becomes less important than stability; we have to give people changes slowly.
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I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.
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I knew rice and gravy would be a hit. Who grew up here and never ate rice and gravy? I'm glad no one ever thought about it before.
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I try to put my own history in my work.
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What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you
