Sean Covey Quotes

Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, "I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.

Sean Covey

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• I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Heart
  • Home

• The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Different
  • Writing

• I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Dream
  • Myself
  • Best

• If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Good
  • School
  • Risk

• I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • First
  • More
  • Generation

• The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Journey

• Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Words
  • Marriage

• I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

  

  Quinn Shephard
  • Like
  • Design
  • Clothing

• If we get to a world of digital securities, then there isn't a need for DTC and Cede & Co. anymore. It's a really huge step in returning to clean capital markets.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • World
  • Need
  • Step

• My faith makes me willing to do things that may look like there's going to be a lot of physical difficulty. And you just go ahead and do it because you truly believe it's the right thing to do.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Believe
  • May
  • Faith

• I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Society
  • Obsession
  • Central

• Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • World
  • Me

• I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Funny
  • Hurt
  • Said

• When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.

  

  Larry King
  • Why
  • Know
  • Look

• I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Law

• It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Good
  • Celebrity

• Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

  

  Bruno Bettelheim
  • Children
  • True
  • Disappointment

• When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a lot more stories to be told than slavery.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Attention
  • Slavery

• Hide your kids, hide your wife, don't change the channel, this is monday night raw and The Miz is the WWE champion.

  

  Alex Riley
  • Kids
  • Night
  • Wife

• I basically stay in jewelry all the time. I have the same couple of necklaces, earrings, and rings, and they usually don't come off my body.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Time
  • Couple
  • Jewelry

• Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Work
  • Leadership
  • Possibility

• I want to be remembered going off the front, not the other way. After winning my seventh king-of-the-mountains title and winning a stage on Bastille Day, I asked myself, 'What more can I do in cycling?' I want to go out at the top.

  

  Richard Virenque
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Going

• Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, "I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.

  

  Sean Covey
  • Winning
  • Needs
  • Said