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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• 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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• If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

  

  M. Scott Peck
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• Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea.

  

  Antonio Machado
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• As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
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• I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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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
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