Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.Stephen Covey
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
T. J. Miller -
I'd like to do more family dramas.
Aaron Eckhart -
Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
Ippy Aiona -
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
Aaron Siskind -
I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
Hank Azaria
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It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
Madchen Amick -
I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.
Narciso Rodriguez -
You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
Naomi Wolf -
It is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our actions on that margin. America and Russia have one interest in common which may override all their other interests: to be able to live with the bomb without getting into an all-out war that neither of them wants.
Leo Szilard -
I was a 52-year-old coach. But people don't realize I had 25 years as a head coach. Most coaches my age only had a few years as head coach. I had six years at Miami of Ohio, eight years at Northwestern, 11 at Notre Dame.
Ara Parseghian -
I love the system. Let me tell you why. People love it... The people, by and large, have great respect for our law and our system... Why do you think they go to that courthouse instead of killing each other in the streets, taking the law into their own hands?
Joe Jamail
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If it wasn't for the stars, we would not be here.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell -
I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.
Chuck Noll -
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
Javier Bardem -
I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.
Patti Smith -
If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers.
Jeremy Lin -
Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.
David Lynch The Platters
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I've been through heartbreak and uncertainty and giddy crushes and everything. We all have.
Anna Faris -
When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to manage. I'd always written, but began to do so with real commitment now that it was my only creative outlet. I used all my acting techniques to do it. I still do.
Jenny Downham -
I don't care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little girls have, and they don't have anyone to look up to. I mean, it's weird, but if I just hid out and didn't let myself be known, who would they look up to instead, you know?
Bethany Hamilton -
Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
Rachel Stevens -
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Paul Valery -
The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.
Stephen Covey