Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.Stephen Covey
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian -
Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
Katee Sackhoff -
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
Carlos Castaneda -
One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
Orison Swett Marden -
There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
Mae Jemison -
They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
Ed Asner
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
Wally Lamb -
It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:
Omar Khayyam -
Many agnostics (including myself) are quite as doubtful of the body as they are of the soul, but this is a long story taking one into difficult metaphysics. Mind and matter alike, I should say, are only convenient symbol in discourse, not actually existing things.
Bertrand Russell -
This is a terrible place to die in.Where’s a good one?
Cormac McCarthy -
Mr. Chadband is a large yellow man, with a fat smile, and a general appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system.
Charles Dickens
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Why have your eyes gone into their own room?
Anne Sexton -
If we wait for the world’s permission to shine, we will never receive it. The ego doesn’t give that permission. Only God does, and He has already done so. He has sent you here as His personal representative and is asking you to channel His love into the world. Are you waiting for a more important job? There isn’t one.
Marianne Williamson -
I love summer, but my legs are so pale I can never wear shorts or a bikini.
Emma Roberts -
If you have time to get your pet rabbit its own Instagram account, you have time to at least tweet about something important.
Jameela Jamil -
I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
Bo Jackson -
There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small.
Elliot Page
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I saw Courtney Love have one of her heroin fits....and break a guitar. So I pulled up a chair. What? You gotta be ring-side!
Kathy Griffin -
The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I started a music school and the music school now teaches kids to play the violin and the viola.
A. R. Rahman -
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
Chinua Achebe -
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
Stevie Wonder -
Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
Stephen Covey