Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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The success of 'Scrubs' allowed me to pursue anything I felt passionately about without having to worry about money. It allowed me to spend my summer work shopping my show at a nonprofit theater.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
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I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
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Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.
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In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
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A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
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'Back In The Saddle' - I never realised what a good riff that was, or at least how much it satisfied me. And when we play it live, it comes across much better than I ever expected it to.
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My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.
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I never gave up believing that there was much more to life than how I was living it.
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My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She knew both of those sports were time-consuming and would keep me busy with hours of practice.
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Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.
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A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.
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In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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Making the decision to embrace or to shun makeup is one that should be contingent on nothing more, nothing less, than doing what makes you feel like the best version of yourself.
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
