Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I'm just not very funny.
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I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
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Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
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Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.
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Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
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'I’ll tell you,' she said softly. 'But you won’t like it.'He looked away from her. 'I asked for the truth. Whether I like it or not, I have to know.'
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I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.
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Πρὸς κέντρα μὴ λάκτιζε.
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Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.
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When you're hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you've got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what's going on; it's a really unique experience.
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I'm always looking for people on the other side of the aisle for any initiative I'm sponsoring - men and women - to move things forward.
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One of the things I found is that no matter where in the country - poor communities, rich communities - everybody deals with very similar issues of bullying. It's pretty widespread.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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I can tell you it makes a big difference to have a director who is collaborative. What motivates a character in my mind could be completely different from what the director's thinking. You have to have those conversations ahead of time and throughout the process. It affects the performance.
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True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
