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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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 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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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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Traditional values are big in my life.
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The president of CBS handpicked me for the 'Star Search' revival, which Arsenio Hall hosted. He picked 12 comics, and I was the only female. I always look to that as inspiration.
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You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.
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Even though decathlon is really long, there's always something different to look forward to, which is great for mental stimulation.
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I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.
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If you want to change your life, you have to do things you've never done before.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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I think I was just very determined, on a whole other level, just to play in this league.
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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.
