Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.Stephen Covey
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
K. Flay -
I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
Naomie Harris -
I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
Ed Harris -
Incommensurables cannot be compared.
Garrett Hardin -
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
Gautam Gambhir -
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
Jack Henry Abbott
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Saint Ambrose -
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Malcolm Bradbury -
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
Patrick Leahy -
Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
Candace Cameron Bure -
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson -
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
Ogden Nash
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I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.
Tamara Tunie -
When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!
Larry the Cable Guy -
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
Felix Adler -
Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
Karin Slaughter -
I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
Eavan Boland -
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. Mencken
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It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
Vic Snyder -
Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield -
We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.
Rafael Nadal -
Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.
Corrie Ten Boom -
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
Stephen Covey