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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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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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 would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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confidence is a choice ... to act, or to do, or to decide.
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I'm the rap version of Dave Chappelle. I'm not sayin' I'm nearly as talented as Chappelle when it comes to political and social commentary, but like him, I'm laughing to keep from crying.
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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.
