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.

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• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Important
  • Business
  • True

• As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • World
  • Live
  • Words

• If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • You
  • Energy
  • Drive

• 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
  • Country
  • Internet
  • Influence

• I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• 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
  • World
  • Women
  • Age

• Any skills that I have, I couldn't really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe I would be doing something in psychology or something of that nature because I love that vein of medicine - the getting down and getting nitty-gritty.

  

  Ian Harding
  • Money
  • Nature
  • Like

• The world is all about mind and matter; I don't mind and you don't matter.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • World
  • Mind

• 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
  • Opportunity
  • Equality

• 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
  • Life
  • High

• 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
  • Art
  • Mother
  • Reality

• Slow and steady wins the race.

  

  Aesop

• Nicole and I worked together on Dogville and we were friends when we started this. That laid the groundwork for our fabulous relationship on screen and off.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Relationship

• I think it's better to be a woman with some curves. It's more natural.

  

  Pierre Dukan

• I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Music
  • Silence

• I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • America
  • Latin

• If nothing else, I have money.

  

  Bjork
  • Money

• Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with cyber crime and shower sex.

  

  Karina Longworth
  • Action
  • Pleasure
  • Observing

• At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Family
  • She
  • Fun

• For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • People
  • Work
  • Mystery

• It was immigration that taught us, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Parents
  • Immigration

• If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Surrender

• We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Action
  • Consequence