Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Stephen Covey

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• The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Beautiful
  • Unity
  • Essence

• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Popular
  • Word
  • Dirty

• The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • Power
  • Choose
  • Greatest

• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Politics
  • Thankful

• My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • She
  • Mom
  • Sweet

• If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Law
  • Focus

• The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Women
  • Why
  • Sky

• In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

  

  Rachel True
  • Time
  • Friends
  • End

• To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • True
  • Action

• I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Children
  • Family
  • Dad

• It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Heart
  • Political
  • Same

• Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• Our platform is a one-stop shop, from marketing and promotion through to ticketing. But even in the early days, in 2006-07, when we were mostly carrying shortform video, we became the premier movie marketing platform.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Movie
  • Stop
  • Marketing

• Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Mean
  • Growth

• I started modeling when I was 16. The odds were against me. At 5' 8, I was shorter than most girls in the business. Still, I gave it a shot, and like with most things in my life, I never gave up.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Business

• I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports - basketball, for example, is an activity that I'll spend many hours a week watching.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Athlete

• In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • Long
  • America

• De pareils serviteurs sont les forces des rois,Et de pareils aussi sont au-dessus des lois.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Individual
  • Social
  • Generations

• I did a school fashion show, and I got scouted there, but I wasn't very interested in modeling at that point.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • School
  • Fashion

• I have a save file in 'Final Fantasy XII' that is 125 hours long. I have gotten into legitimate arguments over the rules governing the tapping of mana in 'Magic: The Gathering.' I don't like hugs or parties, high school sucked for me, and Nathan Fillion deemed something I wrote his 'Favorite 'Firefly' fanboy rant to date.'

  

  Kyle Hill
  • Long
  • School
  • High

• Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Children
  • School
  • Roles