Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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I've had so many injuries.
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And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
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Our D.V.R.s make up the schedule of the shows that we're passionate about. You want Jon Stewart? You've got it. Your D.V.R. will give that to you, as opposed to making the destination and the choice to spend that evening with a network.
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Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
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I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
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I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.
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'Back In The Saddle' - I never realised what a good riff that was, or at least how much it satisfied me. And when we play it live, it comes across much better than I ever expected it to.
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There's no way you should try to send somebody back who came here as a child with their parents and who's grown up here in the United States. They're Americans.
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What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)
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Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
