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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Because of the nature of monthly comics and deadline, I pretty much have to work on whatever's on fire, I'm afraid.
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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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An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.
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I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
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I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.
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As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
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Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.
