Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.

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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
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If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.
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I pretty much look like an identical twin of my mom.
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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
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Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.
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A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
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A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
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I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
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You're always a child of your time, and you cannot step out of that.
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If you go into any physics lab, everybody is depressed and feels isolated. We don't get any feedback that anybody cares about what we're doing.
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I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
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I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.
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It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.