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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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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Of course there is always a reason for fluctuations, but the tape does not concern itself with the why and wherefore. It doesn't go into explanations. I didn't ask the tape why when I was fourteen, and I don't ask it to-day, at forty. The reason for what a certain stock does to-day may not be known for two or three days, or weeks, or months. But what the dickens does that matter? Your business with the tape is now not tomorrow. The reason can wait. But you must act instantly or be left.
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It was a great time, and I liked the guys. I liked getting up every morning and being a cop.
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My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is.
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The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.
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The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.
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Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.
