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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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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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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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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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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If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.
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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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The enigma I will not explain – its 'dark saying' must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture.
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
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Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.
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We'll hopefully get this thing wound up in a reasonable time.
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Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.
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Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.
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Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.
