Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I don't believe in the 100 crore club.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
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I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.
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It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
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The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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When I got home from hospital, and I was in a wheelchair in a plaster body cast, an aeroplane flew over. And I thought to myself, 'Well, if I can't walk, then I might as well fly.' And I was lifted into the aeroplane for the first time. And when I took the controls of the aeroplane, I knew this was something I could do. I thought, 'I can fly.'
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Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.
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The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.
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As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.
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Now I'm 'Blake Lewis' to the world, but I will always still be Bshorty from Bothell... I've never looked at it like a competition so I think I've won regardless. I won when I got to the top ten; I've already reached my goal.
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We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
