Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's what I'm hired to do. In my movies, obviously they hired 'Larry The Cable Guy' to be 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do my shows, I'm 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do Jay Leno, it's: 'Please welcome 'Larry The Cable Guy.'
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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I have got a few misters interested but nobody special these days.
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I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
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I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy.
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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It's funny. You just go out there and try to make good contact. It definitely felt good
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Looking back, I am grateful for so many friends who helped me in my youth to gain a testimony of the restored Church of Jesus Christ. First, I exercised simple faith in their testimonies, and then I received the divine witness of the Spirit to my mind and to my heart.
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I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.
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You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
