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

• When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.

  

  Bobby Knight
  • History
  • Team
  • Player

• We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Passion
  • Justice
  • Emotional

• Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.

  

  Marvin Hamlisch
  • People
  • Mind
  • She

• While Delta continued to post significant losses in January, the company is making progress in stabilizing our liquidity and implementing our business plan.

  

  Ed Bastian
  • Business
  • Progress
  • Stabilizing

• When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Perfect

• 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