Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.
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It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.
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The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
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I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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I'm personally not a Muhammad Ali fan.
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Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
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'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
