Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
Owain Yeoman
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
Wayne Dyer
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They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
T-Pain
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
Walter Kirn
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl Sandburg
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My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone through and what I am thinking. I wrote about my family, friends and boys, of course, and about life.
Lalaine Vergara-Paras
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I didn't know I wanted to be a gymnast; I was just introduced to the gym. I loved the place because it looked like a hi-tech playground with mats and a lot of things I can hang from.
Nadia Comaneci
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There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
Dambisa Moyo
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The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.
Oliver Tambo
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As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
Becki Newton
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.
Abraham Verghese
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I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.
Florentijn Hofman
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Actors don't really get into their stride until they're in their late 30s and 40s.
Orlando Bloom
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Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children.
M. Russell Ballard
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When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.
Walter de La Mare
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Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.
Oprah Winfrey
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There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
B. C. Forbes
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Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads that bind us to nature, as denizens of data and artifice, amid crowds and clutter, we become miserly with these loyal and exquisite guides, we numb our sensory intelligence. This failure of attention will make orphans of us all.
Ellen Meloy
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Be as happy as you want to be in a world gone mad. Be as safe as you want to be in a world that is afraid of everything. Be as healthy as you want to be in a world that is mostly sick. Don't let the statistics that someone else created affect you.
Esther Hicks
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It’s hard for everyone isn’t it? Anyone who says it’s easy is a liar. There’s this huge divide between me and Alex right now because I feel like we’re living in such different worlds, I don’t know what to talk about with him anymore. And we used to be able to talk all night. He phones once a week and I listen to what he’s been up to during the week and try to bite my tongue every time I go into another Katie story. Truth is I have nothing other to talk about but her and I know it bores people. I think I used to be interesting once upon a time.
Cecelia Ahern
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To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
Mencius
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Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.
Stephen Covey