Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How do you maintain that serenity and peace?" He replied, "I never leave my place of meditation." He meditated early in the morning and for the rest of the day, he carried the peace of those moments with him in his mind and heart.
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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My priority is the script. Get me a good script, and I will sign the movie. I think I should leave the casting up to the experts!
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Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
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Being called Gary. It's a crap name. I wish I'd been called by my middle name, Winston.
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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If people see that I'm fully committed to my chosen charities and fully engaged in their issues, maybe they'll click a link to find out more.
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One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.
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I throw 14 parties a week.
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'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.
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Alzheimer's is a disease for which there is no effective treatment whatsoever. To be clear, there is no pharmaceutical agent, no magic pill that a doctor can prescribe that will have any significant effect on the progressive downhill course of this disease.
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I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.
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In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
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There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
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Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.
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Dream impossible dreams. When those dreams come true, make the next ones more impossible.
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Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How do you maintain that serenity and peace?" He replied, "I never leave my place of meditation." He meditated early in the morning and for the rest of the day, he carried the peace of those moments with him in his mind and heart.
