Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
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I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is.
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To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.
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In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...
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I did try to leave, and she came running after me.
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Our ubiquitous mobile access has made time and location important data points in how businesses can now be built and managed.
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I am a fan before I am an artist. I was that twelve year old girl that looked up to Taylor Swift. I get what that role is as a fan. I think that because I know that, I'm really careful and intentional about what I say and what I put out. I want to be that role for anyone who wants me to be that.
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I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s. My wife knows everything about music, and I try and get her to educate me, but it's just not part of my DNA.
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The Nisour Square shooting is a signature point in the Iraq war, one that inflamed anti-American sentiment abroad and contributed to the impression that Americans were reckless and unaccountable. The Iraqi government wanted to prosecute the security contractors in Iraq, but the American government refused to allow it.
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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.
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I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.
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What makes America great is our commitment to our values of inclusivity and opportunity for all.
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Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.
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All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.
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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
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If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.
