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 don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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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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I'd love to work with Drake; I'd love to work with Frank Ocean, Jay Z, and Kanye. The list is endless.
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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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Amazon has a good record with customers, who are confident the retailer will give them the lowest price. Entering their home will be another thing altogether.
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... stress hormones are meant to give us the strength and endurance to respond to extraordinary conditions. People who actively do something to deal with a disaster - rescuing loved ones or strangers, transporting people to a hospital, being a part of a medical team, pitching tents or cooking meals - utilize their stress hormones for their proper purpose and therefore are at much lower risk of becoming traumatized.
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I don’t know why one can’t chase two rabbits at the same time, even in the literal sense of those words. If you have the hounds, go ahead and pursue.
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It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.
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Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
