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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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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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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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
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Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.
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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?
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I'm just not a natural teacher.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.
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As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.
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Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these final decisions are best made when you're there, watching. It's really enjoyable, but you've got to be there at the director's invitation. You can't just barge in and say, "I'm the writer."
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
