Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Leadership is a choice, not a position

Stephen Covey

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• At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Never
  • Choices
  • Moment

• I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Choices

• Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Best
  • Choices

• 'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Love
  • Experience

• I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

  

  Tana French
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Change

• Just because you are lucky does not mean you make good choices.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Choices

• I am very clear with people that I am willing and able to make tough choices, and I will do that.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • People
  • Choices

• A restaurant is a compendium of choices that the owner has made. If you look around a restaurant, everything represents a choice: the kind of salt shaker that's on the table, the art on the walls, the uniforms on the waiters.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Art
  • Choices

• Microeconomics is the study of how specific choices made by businesses, consumers and governments affect the markets for different goods and services. For example, a microeconomist might examine how price changes affect sales of apples relative to oranges.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Different
  • Study
  • Choices

• If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Up
  • Choices
  • Bible

• Sometimes life limits your choices - rising tuition costs may put university out of reach, or like me, personal circumstances might simply make it difficult to complete your education.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Life
  • May
  • Education

• One of the perks of growing up, but also one of the biggest challenges, is making decisions about the future. Deciding what kind of job you want, whether you want to finish school, or whether you want to go to university are huge choices to make.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Up
  • School
  • Job

• I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • Why
  • Reading
  • Choices

• We all control our careers. Those choices that you make are so critical.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Control
  • Choices

• You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.

  

  Lori Loughlin
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Choices

• Many times an actor is stuck for the lack of choices. The same happened with me when I started my career. That was the time when mainly romantic films were being made, and that is what I was offered all the time.

  

  Arjun Rampal
  • Time
  • Career
  • Choices

• Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong. There's a lot of restriction for contemporary films simply because of subject matter.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • Up
  • Choices
  • Period

• I was a total floral hippie as a child so when I finally could make my own choices, I've been living in different black suit jackets and been really drawn to masculine clothes.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • Different
  • Black
  • Choices

• The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote bastardy). This choice of title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life, a sinistral and sinister world. The title's drawback is that a solemn reader looking for "general ideas" or "human interest" (which is much the same thing) in a novel may be led to look for them in this one.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Mean
  • Taken
  • Choices

• Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.

  

  Al Walser
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Programs

• When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Done
  • Deep
  • Forgive

• I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.

  

  Kevin Gates
  • Music
  • Serious

• Leadership is a choice, not a position

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Choices
  • Position