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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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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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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Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.
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I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.
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Traditional values are big in my life.
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I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore that.
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People's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances.
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It's pretty amazing to me that we have had a space shuttle program that's lasted for 30 years - for one space shuttle. That's quite an achievement.
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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.
