Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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The writer is all alone.
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I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.
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I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
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I started in investment banking at Allen & Company in 1991. It was the go-go days of media mergers, and we were incredibly busy with one deal after another. Unlike typical investment banking groups, even in the midst of merger mania, we didn't have a formal face-time culture - and I felt empowered by that.
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Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun.
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As an A-10 squadron commander in the Air Force, I was required to be ready to deploy my 24 Warthogs and team anywhere in the world within 24 hours, including the Korean Peninsula.
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Living in London, you feel the sense of how it has developed into a service city. People come here from around the world - both to launder their money and launder their reputations.
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I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
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The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.
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At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.
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I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.
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She put two-fingered guns to her temples when she saw us: red patch of smoker’s skin around her mouth like a raw sun rising.
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IFS recognizes that the cultivation of mindful self-leadership is the foundation for healing from trauma.
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We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
