Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Once you've found your own voice, the choice to expand your influence, to increase your contribution, is the choice to inspire others to find their voice.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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I was a filmy kid. I was two when I faced the camera for the first time. My parents realised it pretty early, and I'm really thankful to them for their support and help.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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I have to do this my way.
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I was an angry, angry child at times.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
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I'm obsessed with golf, so I love going to play golf.
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I hate bands that hang around, like, 10 years too long - they're like the drunk at a party you can't get rid of.
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Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.
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From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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If you want more money, don't pay attention to the money. Pay attention to the thing that makes the money.
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Fighting really does reveal everything to the other guy. It's not just about who can beat up to or who's tougher, it's who bullies who and who goes easy on who. You change from opponent, so it's about how you deal with a challenge and how you deal with a guy who you can handle easily.
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Once you've found your own voice, the choice to expand your influence, to increase your contribution, is the choice to inspire others to find their voice.
