Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.
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It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.
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The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.
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Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.
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You can achieve anything you put your mind and hard work to.
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We have been involved in racing for so long, it is astonishing we were not born with hooves.
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Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
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I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.
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Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don't; rather, trust is a pragmatic, tangible, actionable asset that you can create.
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The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
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Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.
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Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972.
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They're not gong to give Hateful Eight its credit now, they'll give it its credit later. Hateful Eight was too long. I think we've indulged Quentin Tarantino so much with his monologues. Quentin has this very strong cult following around him and his projects, and people are always expecting so much from him.
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Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive.
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People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.
