Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love the verb.

Stephen Covey

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• I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • People
  • Life
  • Feelings

• Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Long
  • History
  • Feeling

• A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Purpose
  • Sacrifice
  • Innovation

• The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Feelings
  • Ability
  • Distance

• In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Sacrifice

• No fruit. No veggie.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Fruit

• I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Sacrifice

• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Sound

• Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Gone
  • Fruit
  • Bloom

• An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Simple
  • Study
  • English

• It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Career
  • Light

• Continue to study and learn new skills.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Study
  • Learn
  • Skills

• I like to study failure, actually. My partner says, 'I want to know where I'll die so I'll never go there.' We want to see what has caused businesses to go bad. The biggest thing that kills them is complacency. ... The danger would always be that you rest on your laurels.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Bad
  • Die
  • Rest

• Piaget, who was originally trained as a biologist, views intellectual development as an interaction of an inherited genetic program with the environment. It is no coincidence that he calls this conception 'genetic epistemology,' in effect the study of the hereditary unfolding of understanding.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Understanding
  • Environment
  • Study

• We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. … Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Sacrifice
  • Civilization
  • Jews

• I see my friends who have superstar lifestyles, and it's great to have hundreds of millions of dollars, but at the same time, it's a sacrifice of your own sanity.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Time
  • Great
  • Friends

• A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

  

  Marty Allen
  • Time
  • Study

• My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.

  

  Jeremy Northam
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Air

• I had a really kind of yucky divorce and it was really challenging to get over that.

  

  Ricki Lake
  • Really
  • Challenging

• All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • People
  • Friends
  • Father

• Obviously, off the court, he's had some issues. He would be the first to say, 'Why? Why did I do that?' But one, his players graduate; two, they learn how to be men; and three, they learn how to contribute in life. Look at all those Indiana graduates contributing to society.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Life
  • Men
  • Why

• I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Endure

• Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Comedy

• Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love the verb.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Study
  • Feelings
  • Sacrifice