Sean Covey Quotes

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

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• All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Out

• I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Universe
  • Force

• I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Universe

• Never take yourself too seriously.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Never
  • Yourself
  • Seriously

• It will take some time before a fully-fledged government, equivalent to that of a normal nation state, can be established ... The signs are, however, more hopeful than they were.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Time
  • Government
  • Nation

• I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights -- if need be -- with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • People
  • History
  • Freedom

• There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Life
  • Family
  • Job

• She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.

  

  C.E. Murphy
  • She

• Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

  

  Kirby Larson
  • Life
  • Biscuits
  • Flat

• the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Career
  • Girl
  • Fashion

• The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fashion

• Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the way poverty is dealt with, the sheer number of dead bodies you see, it's all pretty overwhelming.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Body
  • Poverty
  • Overwhelming

• Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

  

  John Ensign
  • Persons
  • Achieve
  • Arrogant

• As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Stories

• There was a time when I let go of the reins and thought, What's meant to happen will happen. That's probably one of my biggest faults as a person, and something that I've had to work really hard on: believing in this idea that the universe will decide for me. The universe is not going to decide in your favor.

  

  Rashida Jones
  • Universe
  • Persons
  • Happen

• Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Character
  • Actors
  • Doors

• If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

  

  Sean Covey
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