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.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
T. J. Miller
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I'd like to do more family dramas.
Aaron Eckhart
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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
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
Laura Bell Bundy
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With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
Irvin D. Yalom
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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
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
Jack Hanna
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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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
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I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.
Narciso Rodriguez
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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
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
Fran Lebowitz
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There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
C. S. Lewis
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'Technology is dangerous.''How do you mean?''It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.'
Jack McDevitt
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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
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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
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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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I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
Ian Lustick
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After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
Mason Cooley
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For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
Joseph Brodsky
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What do you mean by praying that God will have mercy upon all men, and save them with an everlasting salvation, and then tell the congregation that God has done all He can to save them, and the matter rests with them, whether they will be saved or not?...if God has done all He can, why pray for Him do more? And if He has not done all He can, why tell the people He has?
William Gadsby
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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