Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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All that would remain of me would be the raincoat I’d been wearing, rolled on a bench.
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These Are the music of meet resignation; these The responsive, still sustaining pomps for you To magnify, if in that drifting waste You are to be accompanied by more Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon.
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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
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To cherish the life of the world.
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I've gotten e-mails asking, 'Are you taking students?' Well, come visit and I'll be happy to talk to you. But I'm not a degree-granting institution.
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I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.
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I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.
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I don't read much, I don't have the time. But I'm not at all happy about that; I want to read more. It's a promise I made to myself. I think it's important.
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When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.
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The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.
