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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There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.
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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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There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.
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In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.
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I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.
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I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.
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Most people have desires that are great and they want to do great things, and they don't want to be negative people or they don't want to live in pessimistic attitudes, but the problem is a lot of them were not given the right tools. They were not given the right blueprint of how to build a building.
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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.
