Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.
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We must investigate without fear or favour the so-called 'accounting irregularities' that cause turmoil in the markets and wipe billions off the investments of ordinary South Africans.
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I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for?
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People are afraid of everything.
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Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
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Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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I am always drawn to things that feel different to what I would experience at home: things that offer a combination of unfamiliarity and a sort of bleak glamour. I think the outback has that.
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Stealing things is everybody's problem. We Apple Inc. own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.
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When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.
