Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.
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I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.
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I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
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With Asian-Americans actors, specifically, there's been fewer opportunities for them in TV and film and fewer that have the ability to actually make a career out of it. It becomes a bit of a chicken and egg situation, where they're like, 'Oh, but they're not famous names,' but they haven't had a chance to be in anything yet, either.
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I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.
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President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
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My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.
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Here's the thing; I'm not in shape.
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My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.
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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
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I look fashionable every day. And the pendulum swings between more, or less, edgy when I'm with bankers.
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The free-from aisle is the most depressing place in the supermarket.
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The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency.
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Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
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Staying healthy through movement and eating well gives you tons of energy and helps mold the skills that allow you to achieve goals from playing soccer to doing a tough homework assignment to writing a song.
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My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.
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My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
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I'm proud of the fact I was able to surround myself with great people who did great things, and it resulted in the Bulls being a global brand and winning championships and a factor in the community.
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The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.
