Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are struggling with parts of themselves... But it's like in the end, there has to be confidence.
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When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.
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Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
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I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.
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All of philanthropy is harnessing that urge to have your name on something, and using it for good.
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I'm a classic Church of England member, but part of its strength is the fact that it doesn't ask us to sign up to too much of a canon... but I've always found the teachings of Jesus and the Bible quite useful as a sort of handy guide.
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I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.
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But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.
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I don't want to be jumping from team to team.
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I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
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The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.
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I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with some children. That's probably the way it would be. But because of the film [the Exorcist], I don't have a normal life by somebody else's standards.
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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I drink a ton of water a day and try to get as much sleep as possible. Sleep is the best way to restore your health. Never skip on sleep; it's crazy important.
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The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.
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There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.
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Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
