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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We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
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It's so important to have a great relationship with your physician. It's one of those essential relationships that I find to be as important to nurture as any other relationship in your life. Without your health, you have nothing.
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I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.
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The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.
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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.