Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
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Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
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More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.
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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.
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I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind 'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine.
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Right before I graduated from the national theatre school, I got the part of Roxie Hart in 'Chicago' in Copenhagen. That led to me playing it here in London. I was 26 when I came over for that. It was the first thing I did as a professional, and it is still the experience of my life.
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The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It's more like a very big iPhone, running the iPhone operating system.
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You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.
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I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
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It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.
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Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
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I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.
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Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.
