Sean Covey Quotes

Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.

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• There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Past
  • Son
  • Thought

• But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Change
  • Present
  • Democracy

• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• I always do my interviews face to face.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Always
  • Face
  • Interviews

• Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Books

• I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Kid
  • Shot
  • Wrist

• There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Object
  • Soft

• Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Writing
  • Heaven
  • Acting

• When you talking boxing, you talking me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Me
  • Talking
  • Boxing

• You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Care
  • Honor
  • Contempt

• I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Great
  • Political
  • Pressure

• For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Life
  • Me
  • Temptation

• My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Up
  • Learning
  • Style

• As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Book
  • Opportunity
  • Day

• I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Work
  • You
  • Sleep

• One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

  

  Man Ray
  • Power
  • Genius
  • His

• I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Remember
  • Daughter
  • Driver

• Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Birth
  • Flowers
  • Karma

• I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Try
  • Anything

• A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl without a shell. a mindful flooding. a spark turned to flame. bird settling nest. love lived

  

  Rumi
  • Ocean
  • Pearl
  • Shell

• Just as organic species evolve toward the use of greater densities of a wider variety of free-energy sources in their environment, so human societies develop to access, store, and use in greater densities larger quantities of free energy through the ongoing improvement of their technologies. As a consequence societies, the same as natural systems, tend to grow larger in size, develop more intricate relations among their diverse components, and create more massive and flexible modes of interaction among them.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Environment
  • Create
  • Interaction

• Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.

  

  Sean Covey
  • Dead
  • Flowers