Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon Hill -
Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
Imre Kertesz -
I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
Kate Bush -
The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.
Ian Somerhalder -
I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
Damian Lewis
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
Barry Bonds -
Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.
Omar Sy -
Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
Vanilla Ice -
Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
Sacha Baron Cohen -
I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't – that to me is not life.
Jack Kevorkian
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
J. B. Priestley -
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi -
Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.
Latrell Sprewell -
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
Felix Adler -
A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.
Patrick Kavanagh -
I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.
Maggie Cheung
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I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.
Marion Cotillard -
American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mothers. We ricochet between 'Everything I ever accomplished I owe to my mother' and 'Every problem I have in my life is my mother's fault.'
Deborah Tannen -
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde -
Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it's a sign of progress.
Emile Zola -
I was, like, 28 or 29 when I finally was on camera for the first time.
Bobby Cannavale -
Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
Stephen Covey