Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
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When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
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Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.
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Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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Beings who are so uniquely constituted must necessarily express themselves in other ways than ordinary men. It is impossible that with souls so differently modified, they should not carry over into the expression of their feelings and ideas the stamp of those modifications.
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Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
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All in the waning light she stood, The star of perfect womanhood.
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So for those of you who haven't read any of my five best-selling books: Liberals are driven by Satan and lie constantly.
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And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.
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I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.
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That's what I tell my students at California Institute of the Arts where I taught for 27 years. I taught them if you strive to be a good person, maybe you might become a great jazz musician.
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The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
