Sean Covey Quotes

These problems are real, and you can't turn off real life. So I won't try. Instead, I'll give you a set of tools to help you deal with real life.

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• I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

  

  Wale
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • God
  • Job

• I'm an artist at heart.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Heart
  • Artist

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• A well-aimed spear is worth three.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Three
  • Worth
  • Spear

• I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Great
  • Team

• I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wife

• We don't grow older, we grow riper.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Grow
  • Older

• The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Nothing
  • Very
  • Happen

• The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Real
  • Business

• Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Bed

• I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Work
  • Why
  • Space

• Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Build
  • Reputation
  • Lawyers

• There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Good
  • Best
  • Dark

• 'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • People
  • Think
  • Society

• It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Up
  • Always
  • Easy

• I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Work

• I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Morning

• In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'

  

  Anne Boleyn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Small

• At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.

  

  Ally Carter
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Every little detail of my life is, and has always been, surrounded by fashion - from the cup I drink my coffee from in the morning to my constant travels - fashion always pops up somewhere and somehow.

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fashion

• These problems are real, and you can't turn off real life. So I won't try. Instead, I'll give you a set of tools to help you deal with real life.

  

  Sean Covey
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying