Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Stephen Covey

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• Paradigm

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• I think I need security.

  

  Zoe Sugg
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• We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
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• I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.

  

  Rachel Platten
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• Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
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• When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
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• We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• What's weird is the Hot Boys and the whole New Orleans Cash Money thing had a really big impact on the Bay when that was popping off. I don't all the way understand it. I mean, I know that they were big everywhere and had a lot of commercial success in the mid to late '90s, but they were really, really felt in the Bay Area.

  

  G-Eazy
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• Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
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• Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Thinking
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• If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.

  

  Venus Williams
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• Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading... it's a very, very powerful tool.

  

  Gary Wright
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• People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

  

  Maggie Smith
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• I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.

  

  Valentino Garavani
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• I don't know many better training grounds than being mayor of San Francisco - those were pretty intense years in terms of reporting and scrutiny.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro continentia et aequitate libido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul cum moribus immutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optimum quemque a minus bono transfertur. (II)

  

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• Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.

  

  Brad Blanton
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• Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

  

  Philip Wylie
  • Long
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• In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Think
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• In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

  

  Armstrong Williams
  • Life
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• Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Life
  • Crisis
  • Handkerchief

• If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Attitude