Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.Stephen Covey
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
Taiye Selasi -
I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
Walt Mossberg -
I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.
Maisie Williams -
How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am. So how do I feel about older age? Crazy about it! Wouldn't trade it for anything!
Olivia De Havilland -
The world is all about mind and matter; I don't mind and you don't matter.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
As feminism made this transition from equal opportunity to unequal opportunism, I made my transition from supporter to critic. But in my inner psyche, there was no transition: I went from supporter of equality to supporter of equality.
Warren Farrell
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
Jack McDevitt -
An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.
Louis Sullivan -
I think it's better to be a woman with some curves. It's more natural.
Pierre Dukan -
If nothing else, I have money.
Bjork -
I am very far away from being angry. I really don't get angry most of the time. I am a patient person.
Barun Sobti -
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
Christy Turlington
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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
Mary Oliver -
I always felt if something bad happens, it can be your best opportunity. The times I was most depressed turned out to be the best things.
Jerry Reinsdorf -
If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.
Jane Krakowski -
I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.
Elizabeth Strout -
People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are.
Bobby Davro -
Doing the right thing is easy. It is much more difficult to... figure out what the right thing is.
Harry S Truman
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The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
Berkeley Breathed -
For me, I like to look presentable when I'm outside. I'm not going to come to the office with nasty hair and pajamas just because I stayed up all night - that's just who I am.
Yoon Ahn -
Stop yelling. If everyone’s yelling, no one can be heard.
Jennifer Donnelly -
We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
Stephen Covey