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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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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That's kind of the fun part about acting. We do get the right to kind of get from A to Z any way we want, as long as we start at A and end at Z.
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If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience. I feel that I could never really say the depth of feeling or connection I feel to the natural world, which has made me.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.
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Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people do not have basic freedoms, it wouldn't bug me to tax the living Dickens out of that thing or even to forbid its importation whatsoever. But that's a moral question, not an economic question.
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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.
