Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.Stephen Covey
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
Nancy Gibbs -
You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
Dan Jenkins -
I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
Naomie Harris -
At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.
Olivia Wilde -
A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
Ilya Ilyin -
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Baltasar Gracian
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
Karen O -
The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
T. R. Knight -
Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
Edan Lepucki -
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
Dan Gertler
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
Flo Rida -
I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
Carice van Houten -
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan -
I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
Washed Out -
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Barack Obama -
When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
Karl Malone -
All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
Manny Pacquiao -
O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.
Rabindranath Tagore -
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
E. O. Wilson -
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
Norman Douglas -
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
Stephen Covey