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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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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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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If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.
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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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Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
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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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The one thing I'll say is I was a quiet kid. Much more of an observer than a performer.
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May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.
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Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian.
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I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at?
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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.
