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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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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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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Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.
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Commercials are 20 seconds long, so you don't get to experiment with your characters. But in films, you get to try out your acting skills.
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In the Kabbala, it says that we receive the light in order to impart the light, and thus we repair the world.
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The best things are placed between extremes.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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I would have to say the most challenging thing about directing is the sheer stamina because... as a director, you're always doing something. Someone always needs to talk to you. There are always decisions to be made and every day for as long as the movie goes on. So it's a marathon... You don't have to look nice, but it's all day every day.
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
