Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
In my own experience, both personally and professionally, I've learned that you don't wait to confront reality. It doesn't get easier. It doesn't get better. And, in some cases, if you don't get the relevant information from people and act quickly, you start losing options. You're into damage control.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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Remember that an answer to a difficulty resides at a higher level than our usual thinking, so seek this loftier level.
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Too bad, I'm no poet, I happen to know it, But anyway Here's a roundelay I wrote last night about you...
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There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.
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I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.
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I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.
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I know Russia well.
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In my own experience, both personally and professionally, I've learned that you don't wait to confront reality. It doesn't get easier. It doesn't get better. And, in some cases, if you don't get the relevant information from people and act quickly, you start losing options. You're into damage control.
