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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In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.
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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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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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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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I am a bad planner, and my friends would vouch for it.
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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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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
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The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
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My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!
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If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.
