Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them - when they feel understood by you - that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.
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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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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
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I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.
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I was an angry, angry child at times.
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I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception.
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I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.
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If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
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The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.
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If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.
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The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them - when they feel understood by you - that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.
