Sean Covey Quotes

Now think deeply. What have you done with your life over the past year? How do you feel inside?

Sean Covey

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• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Important
  • Think
  • New Things

• Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Movie
  • Sense

• We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I'm an outsider.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Outsider

• I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Students
  • Brown

• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creativity

• I want to go see Somalia because I've never been there, and I feel like I'm missing out. I want to learn that heritage; I want to learn about my culture.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Want
  • Culture
  • Learn

• I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Think
  • Child

• I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • School
  • Drama
  • Working

• Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Nice

• The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Know
  • Impressed
  • Michel Foucault

• Let such, such only tread this sacred floor, Who dare to love their country and be poor.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Country

• When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Happy
  • Dream
  • Girl

• To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • Nature

• But make no mistake. My counterpart is capable of a great deal of ruthlessness in pursuit of a just cause. He believes he has right on his side. And men who think they have right on their side are always the most dangerous sort.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Great
  • Men
  • Mistake

• Everyone wants something that'll appeal to, like, 13-year-olds to 18-year-olds. Especially working in television and trying to pitch shows, they're like, 'We definitely want something that a 14-year-old will be, like, super-psyched about.' And I'm like, 'I don't know if my reality is appealing to a 14-year-old.'

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Trying
  • Reality

• I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Good

• You should never turn your back on the market that gave you notoriety and be who you are and give you the numbers it gives you in the United States. I can't deny that the success I've had in the United States or the success that 'Pulling Strings' was due to my work in Latin America.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Work
  • America
  • Success

• In some cases, lack of full knowledge or holistic view, that is also part of the problem. But mainly lack of moral principle. So long you have this genuine sort of concern, well being of other. That's the foundation of moral principle.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • Knowledge
  • Moral

• Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.

  

  Pierre Salinger
  • She
  • Husband

• As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Future
  • Past
  • California

• I really look up to Louis C.K. I think he's great. And obviously he's very popular, more popular than me. Years ago, I was thinking, naively, it would be great to be that popular. And then I thought about it and then I realized that, with his money and his level of notoriety, he has all of the same emotions that I do.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Up
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Now think deeply. What have you done with your life over the past year? How do you feel inside?

  

  Sean Covey
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Feels