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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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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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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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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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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Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.
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My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.
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While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.
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The more I thought about myself, the weaker I got. The more I recognized that I was serving a purpose larger than myself, the stronger I got.
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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.
