Sean Covey Quotes

The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job.

Sean Covey

• Mind
• Strong
• Opportunity
• College
• Purpose
• Fulfillment

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• I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Girl
  • You
  • Chinese

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Me
  • Values
  • Talking

• I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• I'm very conscious of Miguel Cotto's career... I need to do my part on that night to have victory and create my own legacy in this sport of boxing.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Career
  • Night
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• Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Creativity
  • See
  • Move

• When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Real
  • Yourself

• If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Say
  • Ahead

• I can always go back to education.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Education
  • Always
  • Back

• I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Talent

• The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Funny
  • Politics

• The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I think the last game console I had was Super Nintendo. I remember once I played the Sega Genesis. But Super Nintendo was my last game device. I played outside more. I liked kickball and baseball.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Remember
  • Game
  • Baseball

• My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mother
  • Fight
  • Nurse

• I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Always

• I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Time
  • Conversation

• Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm fascinating. Everything neutralises. It's more of a statement on society and how weird it is.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Politics
  • Identity
  • Opportunities

• When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Money

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Opportunity
  • Leader
  • Harmony

• The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mind
  • Fools
  • Sagacity

• The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job.

  

  Sean Covey
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Opportunity