Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.

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• I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Movies

• I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Gutter

• You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Know
  • Doubt

• Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Up
  • Day
  • Winning

• The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.

  

  Matt Lauer

• Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• In writing a novel about George Sand, I hoped to present her as the talented, beguiling, complicated and occasionally infuriating woman I think she was, but I hope, too, that readers will enjoy the people she surrounded herself with.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • People
  • Writing
  • She

• I just think that knowing about your body at any age, whether it's educating yourself on fertility, getting mammograms, going through puberty - whatever it may be, is really important. I just really encourage women empowerment and being comfortable talking about these issues.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Important
  • Women
  • May

• We have to change public perception of ex-convicts. Most Canadians don't realize that when you come out of prison, you're a complete pariah. You can't get a car loan or money from a bank to start a business. So most end up back in prison within 24 months. It's just so wrong. We need to fix this problem.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Up
  • Money
  • Business

• I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Nice
  • Judge
  • Rain

• An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Picture
  • Service
  • Design

• In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of allowing another nation to beat us there.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Country
  • Moon

• Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Creativity

• A North Korea that has the capability to use a nuclear weapon that can reach an American city or those of an ally poses a grave challenge as the U.S. seeks to preserve peace and stability in the region.

  

  Lois Frankel
  • American
  • Peace
  • City

• We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

  

  Jessica Lange

• The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. Meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.

  

  Brassaï
  • Reality
  • Choose
  • Creation

• So many people look up to Jennifer Lawrence playing Katniss in 'The Hunger Games.' For them to look up to Rey and what she represents would be fantastic. She's a wonderful character... The reason I love her so much is she does all the fun stuff. She fights, runs and protects herself and has an incredible emotional story.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Love
  • Support
  • Emotional

• If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • People
  • Art
  • Service

• My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.

  

  Danielle de Niese
  • American
  • Dad

• A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Emotional
  • Affirmation
  • Ingredients