Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.
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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
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Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.
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..the long Russian word for creation: 'proisvedenie' - so different from its shorter counterparts in English, French and German - expresses for me the whole history and process of creation, lengthy, mysterious, infinitely complex and foreshadowed by divine predestination.
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Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor … Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done - and was about to do.
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I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me.
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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.
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I think a lot of artists get confused when people like their music; they think that means people know and like them. I'm sure there's an element of truth to that, but to me, the music I make is what I'm most proud of. I prefer to focus on that and for people to focus on the music, too.
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What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it.
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The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.
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Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
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Improving small business opportunities through federal contracts creates jobs and saves taxpayer money.
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I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.
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I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.
