Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.Stephen Covey
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
Beau Willimon -
Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
Kapil Sibal -
The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
Victor Mitchell -
You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
Iris Apfel -
Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
Daniel De Leon -
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
Ramon Rodriguez -
It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
Laura Innes -
We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
Carey Mulligan -
My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
Karen Duffy -
I auditioned 5-6 times for 'Dangal.' I was just waiting for the final call, as there were about 15-16 girls who auditioned for the role.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
Camille Paglia
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I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
Aasif Mandvi -
In July 1944, at the Mount Washington Hotel in the resort town of Bretton Woods in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White created the New World Order.
Pat Buchanan -
I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.
Chiang Kai-shek -
Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
Bill Nighy -
I'll be out having a good time and stick my gum on the side of my cup - I know, it's a horrible habit - and people will steal the cup.
Jenna Jameson -
I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external action. While writing 'Chance,' it occurred to me that this is the most internal book I've ever written. So much of the action takes place in Chance's head.
Kem Nunn
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If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all.
Dweezil Zappa -
It didn’t matter who was more right. What mattered is that we listened to each other
William Craig Zwick -
You can work for 10 years without making it... we aren't actually all living in mansions.
Jimmy Napes -
I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a lot of appeal to that. It's nice to think of it as this playful kind of thing. But I think that another way to look at it is "Look, I just want to be sincere. I want to write something and make you feel something and maybe you will go out and do something." And it seems that the world is in such bad shape now that we don't have time to do nothing but language games. That's how it seems to me.
William T. Vollmann -
I'm human. I'm a person. I would love to be in a relationship with a man. I would love to find the right man; I think that's natural - that's what we all want.
Lara Giddings -
The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.
Stephen Covey