Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.
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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 want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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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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In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.
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Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
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I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.
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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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I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
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We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.
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Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
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I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.
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I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.
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I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'
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The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
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I think that the plus-size industry has been great with size diversity, but it hasn't really been great for skin tone diversity.
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I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.
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I'm not so adept at social media. It's not my forte.
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I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
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I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.
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All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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Asperger's doesn't define me. It's a condition that I have to live with and work through, but I feel more relaxed about myself. People will have a greater understanding of who I am and why I do the things I do.
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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.
