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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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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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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'McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.
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If we could export more finished products instead of raw materials, we could become a middle-income country.
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I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
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I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
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One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made. That this is still the morning of creation. That mountains, long conceived, are now being born, brought to light by the glaciers, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.
