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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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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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 a basketball player. And my mother even wanted me to quit because I hurt my leg. But I didn't know anything about football - from Pee-Wee on up, my friends would play, and I would never go with them.
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There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.
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Tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world because whatever the person does, if it works you just say that's what's good, and if it doesn't work, you guys go, 'He should have done the other things.'.It just doesn't take much thought. If I'm grinding and I'm winning, you guys are like, 'He's reinvented himself.' If I'm playing like crap and pushing, then, you know, 'He's horrible and he needs to hit the ball.'
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Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.
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The relationship between the HBCUs and the auto makers is historically really important.
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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.
