Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
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Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.
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For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.
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Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.
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When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.
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Your mother embarrasses you in front of maybe a couple hundred people. My mother embarrasses me in front of millions.
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You're a song written by the hands of God.
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Novels set in distant places give us expectations not unlike those we have of travel writing, and often the distinctions are blurred, as in, say, the way the low life of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward is depicted in John David Morley's recent 'Pictures from the Water Trade.'
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For me, great jazz records really feel like everyone in the room is playing together in a zone - and all the musicians are completely in sync with each other.
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Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it was promulgated, and, coming from the same divine source: - God, all religions exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
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Noble be man, helpful and good!
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More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!
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If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.
