Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.
Stephen Covey
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
Dan Shechtman
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
Valentina Zelyaeva
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Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
D. J. Cotrona
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
Tatyana Ali
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
M. H. Abrams
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I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.
J. R. Smith
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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
Fernando Pessoa
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My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
Barbara Jordan
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'I’ll tell you,' she said softly. 'But you won’t like it.'He looked away from her. 'I asked for the truth. Whether I like it or not, I have to know.'
Octavia E. Butler
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No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.
Alexander Cockburn
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
Aristophanes
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I think it's cyclical. Zombies have been around for ages, and vampires have run their course; we've had so many vampire movies.
Jonathan Levine
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If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.
Emilio Estevez
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I'm an only child.
Jenna Morasca
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If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?
Jodi Picoult
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The mind that puts everything in question, reaches, after a thousand interrogations, an almost total inertia, a situation which the inert, in fact, knows from the start, by instinct. For what is inertia but a congenital perplexity?
Emil Cioran
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Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.
Stephen Covey
