Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.

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• Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Free
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  • Youth

• We don't grow older, we grow riper.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Grow
  • Older

• The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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• My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Sports

• I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.

  

  Verite
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• I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Men
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• We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.

  

  Wavy Gravy
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• Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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  • Entertainment

• My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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• The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • World
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• In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
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• Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...

  

  Alfred Korzybski
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• It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

  

  Chevy Chase

• As long as I can play at a certain level, that's what I'll do.

  

  Dimitri Payet
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• I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• There's no down time any more.

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • Time

• I'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.

  

  John Hurt
  • Business
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• Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally approved of or even recognized at the time; they make fun of honored figures and piously held beliefs; and they view social pretenses with clear-eyed directness, remarking - as in Andersen's famous tale - that the emperor has no clothes.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Time
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• God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.

  

  Don Ameche
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  • God

• 'I don't feel like I've re-invented myself, I feel like I've re-discovered who I was.'

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden

• How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.

  

  Stephen Covey
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