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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It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.
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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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Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.
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I love things that are absurd, useless, impossible, frantic, excessive, and intense, because they provoke me, because I feel them like thorns in my flesh.
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What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you
