Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.Stephen Covey
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
Narendra Modi -
Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
Dale Murphy -
When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
Abbe Pierre -
The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
Fay Godwin -
Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
Sam Barry -
Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
Ted Allen
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
Tacitus -
If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.
Patrice Motsepe -
I pretty much look like an identical twin of my mom.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau -
Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.
Gabourey Sidibe -
A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
P. J. O'Rourke
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I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
C. S. Lewis -
Oh mercy, mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be.What about this overcrowded land?How much more abuse from man can she stand?Oh, na na...My sweet Lord... No.
Marvin Gaye -
And I'm sorry about the phone call and needing youSome decisions you don't makeI guess it's just like breathing or not wanting toThere are some things you can't fake
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.
Clint Eastwood -
When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There were two wonderful editors, Bud Isaacs and Bernie Balmuth, working on the project, and every chance I had, I would go to the editing room to watch and learn from them.
Christopher Rouse -
I long to get back into theater.
Antonio Banderas
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I do think 'Dr. Ken,' at its heart, is about a great doctor who's a bit burned out. But even when I was a burned-out doctor, I was still happy and had a life outside of work.
Ken Jeong -
Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.
David Knopfler Dire Straits -
Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
Adam Grant -
Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that God is willing to bestow upon us is not humility, but the mockery of it. A genuine humility will ever feel the need of the largest measures of grace, and will be perfected just in the degree in which that grace is bestowed. The truly humble man will seek to be filled with all the fullness of God, knowing that when so filled there is not the slightest place for pride or for self.
George Bowen -
It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
Stephen Covey