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.

Stephen Covey

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• 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.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
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• 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.

  

  Ian Hart
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• A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• 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.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• 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.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attitude

• Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

  

  Jack Gould
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  • Television
  • Taxes

• I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
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• A book is either autobiography or a novel.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Book
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  • Either

• Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Amazing
  • Beer

• My favourite roller coaster is the Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio.

  

  Alice Ripley

• 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.

  

  Eric Butterworth
  • Thinking
  • Money
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• A founder is the emotional energy aorta of a company. The energy that emanates from a founder attracts people and capital to the endeavor. When that energy goes away, it can feel impossible to do the job.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • People
  • Job
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• 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.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Jesus
  • Buddha

• 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!

  

  Betty Gilpin

• 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.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Up
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Up
  • Done
  • House

• The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

  

  Bruce Beresford
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• I'm ready to work and if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it's fine.

  

  LaDonna Adrian Gaines
  • Work

• I grew up in the projects and I know how important it is for kids to have hope.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Important
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  • Projects

• The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.

  

  Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC
  • People
  • Authority
  • Failing

• Ben Carson's not really a factor anymore. I hate to say that of anybody, but he isn't a factor anymore.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Hate
  • I Hate
  • Factors

• Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

  

  John Mica
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Environment
  • Choices
  • Results