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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  Dambisa Moyo
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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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• 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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• We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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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
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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
  • Never
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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
  • People
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• People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Different
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• Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • You
  • Right
  • Whatever

• There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Fear

• I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Art
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• Imagination comes of not having things.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Imagination

• I am thankful to those who've listened to my story over and over as well as those who've helped me share it. For me, the act of storytelling is an act of healing.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Healing
  • Thankful

• I am a control freak. I want to do what I want to do.

  

  Kiana Tom
  • Control

• It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.

  

  Dave Blood
  • Ugly

• Growing up, I was always creatively inclined, and when YouTube came about, it was like getting the perfect platform to showcase what I wanted. Personally, I was going through a dark phase in my life, and I decided to make videos and basically go by the adage, 'If you want to cheer up yourself, go cheer up someone else.'

  

  Lilly Singh
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• People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-Gal is paid seventy-five bucks per game. That is correct: seventy-five bucks for each of ten home games. The grand cash total per season does not keep most of them flush in hair spray, let alone gas money to and from practice.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
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• My return to the theater in New York was so specific. I didn't want it to be about leveraging my exposure or my fame, so the first show I did in New York was an ensemble piece at an Off-Broadway theater, and I wanted to make sure that it was just about the play and about the experience.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Play

• And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Long
  • Heart

• Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

  

  Lord Mountbatten
  • Life
  • Men
  • War

• However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of "indifferent" nature: they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Tomb

• 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