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'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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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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Boxers, man, except when I have to get dressed up. Then it's boxer-briefs. But never tighty-whities. Never. But dude! If they brought back Underoos? Dude, if they brought back Underoos, I would rock the Underoos. Like He-Man and Transformers and G.I. Joe and even like Dukes of Hazzard.
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Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.
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Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
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I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment.
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I like my airplane. It's as much a part of me as anything but my wife and kids.
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I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.
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What's really striking here is that a candidate who ran as the Paladin of the working class who'd deliver them picks a guy who heads a fast-food company, [Donald] Trump says he wants to bring back manufacturing.
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To understand an artist is to be a genius.
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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.
