Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Stephen Covey
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like controversy.
Sammy Sosa
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The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.
Walther Bothe
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
Sam Abell
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
Laure Manaudou
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People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
Gabrielle Zevin
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All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age group on my Facebook page is 25- to 35-year-old women.
Abbi Glines
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Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures.
Indra Nooyi
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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
B. F. Skinner
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'Alyx,' she said, 'you're going to be a legend.''I already am, Captain,' she said.
Jack McDevitt
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Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
Deepak Chopra
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There's no such thing as a life that is not normal, or, there's no such thing as a life that is not abnormal. We all have amazing lives; we all have very dull lives.
Anne Enright
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Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.
Peter Berg
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I am going to be respectful of you, and I want you to be respectful of me. We are all Democrats, and we need to act like it.
Marcia Fudge
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I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.
Alison Jackson
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Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
Bob Woodward
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I'm a firm believer in the connection between the body and the mind: feed one, feed both. I like to run, but only short distances, and fast. I'm no good at long distance. More than six miles, and the knees start to go.
Matt Haig
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While I am willing to compromise on process or on programs, I will not compromise my principles, nor would I expect those I work with to do so.
Brad Schneider
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I'm not a natural. I had to teach myself - or be taught - everything I do. I just spent hours and hours in the mirror mimicking Michael Jackson.
Ne-Yo
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Time and work. I just hope we don't run out of time.
Alonzo Mourning
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To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about.
James Clavell
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Wrestling - It isn't just a passion, it's my future.
Saraya-Jade Bevis
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I won't join another band again.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the work The print and a proper one is the only completed photograph, whether it is specifically shaded for reproduction, or for a museum wall.
W. Eugene Smith
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If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Stephen Covey
