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.

Stephen Covey

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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

• There are fewer and fewer roles that I haven't done already, or archetypes that I haven't played, and to break out of that box, the most interesting stuff is television.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Done
  • Interesting
  • Television

• 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

• If the United States is the melting pot of the world, you need entertainment - you need visuals that represent that.

  

  Ryan Potter
  • World
  • United States
  • Entertainment

• Winning the World Cup was a dream come true after so many years of wanting something so bad. After that final whistle, I dropped to the ground on my knees and got emotional.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • World
  • Bad
  • True

• The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

  

  David Guetta
  • Good
  • Emotional

• I don't rely on catchphrases or really like sing-along. I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that. It's been working for me, so I'd be cool with that.

  

  Meek Mill
  • Cool

• Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

  

  Donald Cargill
  • God
  • Believe
  • Free

• 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