Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
Dan Colen
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
Famke Janssen
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
Flavor Flav
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
Zadie Smith
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
Vikas Swarup
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
Nandan Nilekani
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
Rachel Sklar
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Xun Kuang
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
Ferdinand Foch
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When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
Aaron Douglas
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They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.
Samuel P. Huntington
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What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
Idris Elba
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Victor Hugo
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The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through.
Octavia E. Butler
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People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.
Kevin Spacey
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I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.
Kevin Spacey
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I don't know about that, ... I've never heard that over a headset, I'll put it that way.
Joe Gibbs
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I don’t see a way in,” Eve whispered. Why are you whispering?” Myrnin whispered back. “Vampires can hear us, anyway.
Rachel Caine
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I think it is completely unacceptable for someone like Christopher Meyer to break trust in the way that he has done,
Jack Straw
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I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time.
Alicia Keys
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He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself).
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
Jack Gleeson
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
Caitriona Balfe
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Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.
Stephen Covey