Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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Using leverage to cure the problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it is denial. The debt crisis is not a temporary problem, it is a structural one. We need rehab.
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With all respect, why do you give crap countries a vote?
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I was at the job of reading it for days and days, endlessly daunted and halted by its laborious dullness, its flatulent fatuity, its almost fabulous inconsequentiality. (On H. G. Wells' Joan and Peter) Ch. 2, 'The Late Mr. Wells'
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When you're involved in those big-budget movies, there's a lot of hype: 'Oh this is gonna be a big hit!' And 'A Christmas Story' wasn't. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office.
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Of all the places I've been, India is the one that's on the top of my list to return to.
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Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.
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I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.
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In your mid-30s, you have to take inventory, or you'll stumble.
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Radio 1 has always championed women; take Annie Nightingale, for example. One of my heroes.
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Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds.
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The world is going to change, whether we like it or not. We can participate in that change or we can be the victims of that change. In a way. Either we go in our stupidity ignorance, and arrogance, bring more destruction in a way, or we're forced to change.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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There's no doubt in the world that I am the biggest 'Doctor Who' fan.
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I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I'm a shrinking violet because I don't want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
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We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
