Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.
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I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.
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'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
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My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
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I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.
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17) No technique works if it isn't used.
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The films that have influenced me most are: 'The Hustler', 'Badlands', 'Hud', 'Tender Mercies', 'Cool Hand Luke', 'A Perfect World', and 'Laurence of Arabia'. I also really like 'Fletch'. I feel like all of these films reached an honest place in regard to the human condition while also stringing together really entertaining stories.
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I think women's relationships with other women are very complicated and depend on their relationships with their mothers. Mine was fraught with problems. So I didn't necessarily trust women for a long time.
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Every time the conservatives get in trouble, they start pounding on this ridiculous idea that the liberals want to take their microphones. They want to get Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity off the air. That is a straw man argument throw out by the conservative broadcasters who are so out of material they are going to fear-monger their listeners.
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I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much anymore. I think ive gotten more comfortable with the unknown.
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I compete with myself. I try to get more done than you. I don't know why.
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Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
