Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
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All my books are optimistic!
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
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I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
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Basically, I'm a free spirit. I'm kind of an Everywoman.
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
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There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.
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I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
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The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.
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I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
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The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.
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There's a film there in competition [of Sundance Film Festival] called To The Bone. It's directed by Marti Noxon. I have a supporting role in it. It got really well received. It's a really great film.
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We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
