Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
Daley Thompson -
To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
Ted Lyons -
I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
Hannah Gadsby -
Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
Nas -
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
Wallace Shawn -
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
Dana Carvey -
I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
Lata Mangeshkar -
I love working with women.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
Walter Gropius -
I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
Kate Bush
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. Wilson -
Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
J. B. Pritzker -
And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.
Walter Dean Myers -
'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
Nancy Horan -
However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
Joanne Rowling -
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi
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By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.
Daniel Hanley -
An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.
Evan Esar -
You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
Edgar Bergen -
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
Simon Callow -
In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.
Stephen Covey