Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
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Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.
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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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Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
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I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
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New York ladies all look immaculate.
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I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'
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When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.
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A lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. Especially people who have valuable knowledge.
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When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.
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No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.
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Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
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The feeling that makes 'Warcraft' work as a game is that feeling that heroism can come out of anything or anyone.
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I have blind trust in people. Even if that ends up hurting me, I won't change. I will go on trusting people because that's the only way I know to love someone.
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
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When the effort is in question, the ball goes in different directions and the ball doesn't always bounce your way. When you're playing in the home of the NBA champions, it isn't going to be easy.
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When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
