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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Sometimes when you get to the press conferences, you hear you're going to play this person in the semifinals, and in the quarters, you're going to play her. And I'm like, 'Hold on a second.' First of all, you have to make it there. Second, your opponent needs to make it there. It looks easier on paper than it is in real life.
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The Father's plan is designed to provide direction for His children, to help them become happy, and to bring them safely home to Him with resurrected, exalted bodies. Heavenly Father desires us to be together in the light and filled with hope.
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I will never have anything that is remotely technical near my bath time. I completely zone out and stare up at the ceiling. For me, it's like a form of meditation. It's a time where I can just actually turn off.
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The Attorney General must identify threats to Illinoisans' financial security and take action to protect people.
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Cloud computing eliminates capital expenditure, so you can go global very quickly - you don't have to have extensive servers in every country.
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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.
