Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
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To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.
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Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.
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As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
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We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.
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How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?
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There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.
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I just love math and most people don't.
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We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'
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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
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From the Asia Pacific to Africa to the Americas, the United States and our armed forces will remain the greatest force for freedom and security and peace that the world has ever known. That is your legacy. That is what we have to protect, and that is what we have to defend.
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And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
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My kids and I are spending time together. And we're enjoying that. Family is important; I was gone a lot in the 20 years of public service.
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Culture is a thousand things, a thousand times. It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.
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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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Off-screen, I am the most outgoing and friendly person.
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Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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I need that fear factor in training; otherwise, I might get beat by someone I should never lose against, all because I couldn't get up in the morning.
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We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.
