Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.
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I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.
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I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
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Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
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I don't think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them... I think you should just wait for the person you're...in love with.
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People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.
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In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.
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I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.
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There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.
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If I had to pick one social action I could encourage all my friends, family and fans to do, it would be to teach a child. One, to educate them about good music, but two, because that kind of relationship helps build a bond. When you share music with somebody, that then becomes your link to them. Music is what connects a lot of us, over borders.
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Angel away yeah strange in a way Maybe that is why I chase strangers away
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Little children require their parent's unqualified love in order to survive and feel secure. Very soon, however, they need a tempered version of that devotion- parents who can give them the freedom to fail or feel sorrow or taste frustration, to fully experience their own pain and pleasure and learn from them. Therapists call this phenomenon "ownership".
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Something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.
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For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with.
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We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.
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Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different.
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Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
