Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.

Stephen Covey

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• I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Long
  • Kind

• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Animal
  • Ears
  • Fence

• I can't stand having cold air blowing in my ears, so when it's cold at my house, or if I am outside, I am going to have my ears covered up.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • House
  • Cold
  • Ears

• I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Years
  • Ears
  • Worse

• More idiots should just shut their mouths.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Mouths
  • Idiots
  • Shut

• I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Ears
  • Bits
  • Mentality

• Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

  

  John Travolta
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• The best time to start giving your children money is when they will no longer eat it. Basically, when they don't put it in their mouths, they can start putting it in their bank.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Time
  • Children
  • Money

• I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist. It’s possible that he is already aware, if only in a ‘don't step on the small girl’ kind of way.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Girl
  • Small
  • Crush

• If I'm not in the mood to deal with you, then I just don't deal with you. I look at it like, me not dealing with you could save me a lot of trouble - me forcing myself to deal with you could bring me a lot of trouble. So I just play it by ear.

  

  T.I.
  • Play
  • Looks
  • Mood

• You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Stop
  • Mouths
  • Popping

• I have learned that collaboration are everything to me. Music is a social thing. If there are no ears to hear it, it has no value. I have really loved getting input from other great musicians- like recording strings with my family or making weird synth sounds with tore nissen.

  Nanna Øland Fabricius
  • Great
  • Music
  • Family

• We cannot close our ears; we have no ear lids!

  

  R. Murray Schafer
  • Ears

• We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my mouth to let those big words come on out.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Small

• Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be heard.

  

  Yasmine Galenorn
  • Words
  • Secret
  • Lips

• Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Why

• I play music but only for myself. For my ears only.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Music
  • Play
  • Ears

• Be forewarned,' the vamp said, 'if I learn that there's anything romantic happening here, I'm sending him packing...less a few body parts.' Kylie's mouth dropped open. 'Romantic? Oh, please, he's old. He's as old as you.' Burnett's brow creased. 'Which is my point.' His frown deepened. 'Not that I'm *that* old.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Body
  • Romantic
  • Said

• Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.

  

  Michael Schudson
  • Business
  • Term
  • Clients

• If you're a man, you don't cry about it, you take life, the ups and downs; if you're a real man you never go down, you just stay up!

  

  Ric Flair
  • Real
  • Ups & Downs

• Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Long
  • Waiting
  • inspirational

• You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Ears
  • Mouths
  • Accordingly