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 like to discover new things.
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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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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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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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Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.
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A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.
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Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
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The problem is that you're creating a system of bubble finance where interest rates are so low that people can speculate. An asset value goes up. You put it up as collateral. You borrow against it. You buy more of the asset. You then take the rising asset. You borrow against it again. This is the nature of what's going on in the world. This isn't an excess of real savings. This is an excess of artificial credit that's being fueled by all the central banks.
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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.
