Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.
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I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports - basketball, for example, is an activity that I'll spend many hours a week watching.
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
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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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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the United States legally.
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Natura d'ogni cosa più possente.
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Surprisingly, it is not like they say: 'In this or in that country', no. There are beautiful women in every country.
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Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
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Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.
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Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.
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For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.
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I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.
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The greatest thing you can do for your children is love your spouse.
