Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.Stephen Covey
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Edith Wharton -
When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
Octavia Spencer -
A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
E. W. Howe -
For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.
Iain Duncan Smith -
You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.
Laini Taylor -
Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?
Zadie Smith
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I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.
Ben Bernanke -
You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
Zaha Hadid -
You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.
Kristen Stewart -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was more politically oriented. Part and parcel of the initial SNCC efforts was to not only go in for voter registration, but for political participation.
Ella Baker -
Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.
R. D. Laing -
The trend for documentaries will never go away, because everybody wants to learn about the world. The world is awful in parts, but there's always going to be briliant documentaries about it, and there's always going to be people who want to see them.
Daisy Ridley
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I think any time you're at the end of a trip you're usually pretty ready to come home and start working regularly again.
G-Eazy -
Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
Nadine Gordimer -
it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
Nadine Gordimer -
[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.
Fannie Lou Hamer -
Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.
Chris Hogan -
But first be a person who needs people. People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.
Bob Merrill