Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.
Quotes to Explore
-
Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
-
I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
-
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
-
Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
-
Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
-
Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
-
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
-
A book is either autobiography or a novel.
-
Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.
-
My favourite roller coaster is the Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio.
-
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
-
I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.
-
When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!
-
I've done plays where you get into the run and can go to auditions during the day, or can have lunch with someone, and then you go to half-hour and show up.
-
Every day in our house is like Valentine's Day. I've kept it traditional with what my dad has done with my mom. Every morning, I get up and I make coffee and I bring Giuliana coffee in bed.
-
I'm ready to work and if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it's fine.
-
The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.
-
I was in the 'Alvin and the Chipmunk' movie, which was a real bucket list item.
-
I need to be in a stable environment right now in my career. What I mean by that is a place where I can play and not have too much pressure on me and a place I can develop. Monaco wanted me and did whatever they could to get me so I feel very very good about that.
-
There are so many good roles for women out there, I don't understand it when people say the role choices are fewer as you get older. I find the opposite to be true - there are less good roles out there for the hot 20-year-olds because the normal girl parts just aren't interesting.
-
The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.
-
Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.
