Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of unique mission and role in life.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
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Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
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I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
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The first day I was in a daze thinking, ‘What am I doing? What’s my role?’ and then slowly we started writing with each other, and it was great. It took me way back to my high school days when I was playing in a rock band.
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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
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Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.
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With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the move to nonfiction didn't feel all that dramatic - just another half-step to the right.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to make an important decision.
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Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of unique mission and role in life.
