Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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As an older child, I was a huge 'Anne Of Green Gables' fan.
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
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The PGA Tour has a lot of interaction with our military, and I've grown to have an incredible respect for our troops who are coming home with these horrific injuries, as well as any organization that can not only help them get healed up, but help them get integrated back into society.
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I always love where I can plug a black woman in anywhere, and when that comes up, I don't say, 'Oh that has to be a black woman.' I say, 'Why not a black woman?'
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Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.
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I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.
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I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.
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Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
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You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Seuss.
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I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.
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If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
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I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.
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As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.
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When the Shah found himself in trouble, we quite literally stabbed him in the back.
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This is a speech we've all heard before. From the con artists who aren't like the burglars, who aren't like the armed robbers, who only ever broke a bone if the victim had it coming and the murderers who made 'one mistake' and are forced to pay for it for the rest of their lives. They want to know what you're doing about the real criminals, the rapists and the paedophiles. Who want to know why you're wasting resources on them when we should be tackling female genital mutilation or political corruption.
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The color of your skin is your uniform in this ultimate battle for the survival of the West.
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Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.
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Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
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The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.
