Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

Stephen Covey

• Character
• Health
• Emotional
• Feels
• Temptation
• Fitness

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• It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Love
  • Food

• My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Team
  • Language
  • Brother

• A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

  

  Hale White
  • Power
  • True
  • Knowledge

• Each pineapple plant produces only one fruit per year. It can take up to two years for the pineapple to ripen, and it's important to wait, because once it's picked, it can't ripen any further. The unripe pineapple is not only horrible tasting but poisonous.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Important
  • Year

• My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Think
  • Ideas
  • Advice

• The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Together

• Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Good
  • First
  • Television

• The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Question

• Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.

  

  T. E. Hulme

• When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it.

  

  Kristy Swanson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Book

• I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Inspiration
  • Drummer
  • Drum

• I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Funny

• I think it is a great gift to make people laugh, and it shouldn't be underestimated.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • People
  • Great

• It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • True
  • Smile

• I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.

  

  Charles Frazier
  • School
  • Why
  • Business

• You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

  

  Charles Haley
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Success

• I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.

  

  Alaina Huffman
  • Science
  • Strong

• Cause I am strong and I can prove it And I got my dreams to see me through It's just a mountain, I can move it And with faith enough there's nothing I can't do And I can see the light of a clear blue morning And I can see the light of brand new day I can see the light of a clear blue morning And everything's gonna be all right It's gonna be okay [lyrics from "Light of a Clear Blue Morning"]

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Strong
  • Moving
  • Mountain

• People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Me
  • Hug

• Predicting what content is going to fly is like looking into a crystal ball. I try not to say, 'Yeah, 'Bridesmaids' opened the door to make more movies about women.' I mean, did it? I don't know; where are they?

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Women
  • Door
  • Fly

• My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Character
  • Health
  • Emotional