Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
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The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?
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I figured he'd be like a genius, because he is. He’s very, very subtle and nuanced. It’s very much in the eyes. That’s how it is in real life. He’s such a great actor. I was just amazed that I got the chance to work with him.
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Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.
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I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
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What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it.
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Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway. Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.
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A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.
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When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.
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It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
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Study of the scientific world cannot prescribe the orientation of something which is excluded from the scientific world.
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The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.
