Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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When I was younger I would go to the airport with my friends and drive out 2 A.M., 3 A.M. in the morning and just hang out until sunrise watching planes fly in and fly out. Just sit there and dream about how, one day, that's going to be us in those flights. We're gonna be one of those people with places to go.
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I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
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A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
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'You bloody fool, you've killed the wrong man.'
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As my poor father used to sayIn 1863,Once people start on all this ArtGoodbye, moralitee!
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Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, interviewer (1998‐03-02). First Monday Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates free software developers?. Retrieved on 2013-06-02.
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Plymouth, Gwenda thought, as she moved forward obediently in the queu for Passports and Customs, was probably not the best of England.
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Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.
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The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.
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I'm so proud of you! I gushed, a statement I've only recently come to realize can be a backhanded compliment, insinuating that the person you're proud of has had to overcome some character flaw to do whatevre they've done to make you proud, so what you're really saying is not that you're proud, but that you're suprised the person has made you proud.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
