Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.
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In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.
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A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.
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When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must not be with them, if this isolation is the absolute result and cannot be avoided, in the child's mind a basis is laid for the experience that one must be alone when one makes oneself unpleasant or disagreeable.
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My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.
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Ice cream is my vice.
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For me, personally, I really get a kick out of game shows. I like the play-along factor.
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I was waiting for L.A. to always become something important. I gave up... I left in 1974.
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.
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The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.
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He had obtained a clearer view of his homeland by leaving it and seeing it through the eyes of others.
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… we've got so many laws you can't breathe without breaking something.
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When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.
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Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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My biggest fear is fear itself. I never want to be afraid of doing something I want.
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The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.
