Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.

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• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Guy
  • White
  • Next

• A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Culture
  • Enough
  • Resistance

• A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.

  

  Washed Out
  • Couple
  • Doing
  • First

• You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Done
  • Day
  • Better

• In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Look
  • Looking

• I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Golf

• I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Music
  • Long
  • Job

• Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Challenge

• Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

  

  Halsey
  • Desperate
  • Bisexual
  • Bipolar

• It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Small
  • Limit
  • Surveillance

• Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Stronger
  • Minimum Wage

• If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heaven

• I don't give a damn what anybody says. I don't think at 70 and 75 that you can be as productive and efficient as you were when you were 40 or 50.

  

  Ara Parseghian

• I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Up
  • Growing

• The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

  Charles B. Rangel

• When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Experience
  • History
  • Culture

• Sinatra asked me out.

  

  Dorothy Malone

• In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • World
  • Men

• I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Music
  • May
  • Space

• Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Movie
  • Commitment
  • Reflection

• You're alive, you might as well be glad.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • inspirational
  • Alive
  • Might

• Eating breakfast revs our metabolic engines so that they're ready for prime calorie burn all day.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Breakfast
  • Calorie
  • Metabolic engines

• If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Commitment
  • Wells
  • Meaningless