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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What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.
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Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.
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Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color.
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No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.
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I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.
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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.
