Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.Stephen Covey
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
Vance Joy -
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
Barbara W. Tuchman -
It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
Calamity Jane -
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Samuel Butler -
The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
Samuel Lover -
There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.
Barry Bonds
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
Ranbir Kapoor -
I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.
Umberto Eco -
I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
Kate Klise -
Nothing is more real than nothing.
Samuel Beckett -
Beings who are so uniquely constituted must necessarily express themselves in other ways than ordinary men. It is impossible that with souls so differently modified, they should not carry over into the expression of their feelings and ideas the stamp of those modifications.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
All in the waning light she stood, The star of perfect womanhood.
Lewis Carroll
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Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
Ken Auletta -
To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
Mason Cooley -
Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.
Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys -
I'd seen Jose Padilha's 'Elite Squad 1' and '2', and I'd seen his documentary, 'Bus 174'.
Boyd Holbrook -
I love saying dialogue and creating a full character more than just being physical. But I always end up doing physical stuff in my roles.
Kelly Stables -
In 1986, Pakistan got the blasphemy law. So, while we had just two cases of blasphemy before that year, now we have thousands. It shows that one should be careful while bringing religion into legislation, because the law itself can become an instrument of persecution.
Asma Jahangir
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
Ian Hacking -
Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
Salman Khan -
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
T. H. White -
Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.
Stephen Covey