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.
Stephen Covey
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
Walter Salles
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova
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.
P. T. Barnum
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
Van Morrison
When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.
Abbi Jacobson
I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.
Malin Akerman
The transformation of human consciousness through meditation is frustrated, as long as we think of it in terms as something that I, my self can bring about. because it leads to endless games of spiritual oneupmanship, and Guru competitions.
Alan Watts
I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
Joe Eszterhas
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.
Jenny Han
I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.
Jess Walter
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
Douglas Brinkley
With our dramas, we have a lot of shows that feature very well-to-do, well-educated people who are driving very nice cars and living in extremely nice places.
Channing Dungey
Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
John Chamberlain
I have to try to remind people on both sides of the barque of Peter that there is room for us all and that we are not the first generation of Catholics to experience serious theological and pastoral differences of opinion. In fact, from the New Testament, strong leaders within the church disagreed openly. Eventually, the truly great ones found ways to heal conflicts and keep the Lord's flock united.
Wilton Daniel Gregory
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.
Van Wyck Brooks
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
Wendell Phillips
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.
Stephen Covey
