Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Priority is a function of context.

Stephen Covey

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• For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Context

• I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Wish
  • Priorities

• In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Priorities

• It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • World
  • Way
  • Function

• If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Time
  • Important
  • Priorities

• An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Important
  • Done
  • Running

• As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Certain
  • Priorities

• Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Wall
  • Social
  • Function

• Before I even came into office, I said that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was a priority.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Priority
  • Office
  • Priorities

• Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Nature

• Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Taken
  • Fire

• Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Heart
  • Journey
  • Conversation

• What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Health

• A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Movie
  • Function
  • Sets

• The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Knowledge
  • Function
  • Psychic

• The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

  

  Aristotle
  • Thing
  • Excellence
  • Function

• I have always tried to sense the mood of the people, their needs, their attitude toward ways to solve problems, their priorities. That's mainly what I go by. And I think that's the most important thing in any person's work, in the work that the people of Russia entrusted in me.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Attitude

• The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free press, the priority of the individual over mythical state interests, a state which serves the interests of ordinary people and defends their rights and interests. This is all easy to say but hard to make reality.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Country
  • Reality

• Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

  

  Michael Merzenich
  • Progress
  • Function
  • Improving

• For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Creativity
  • Definition
  • Solving

• The house is a symbol of my achievement.

  

  Sarah Harding
  • House
  • Achievement
  • Symbol

• We've had some success at Fontana, but have never won there. It's a lot like Michigan, which is a track I really like, but the banking is a little less at California. I like the racetrack and, hopefully, we'll have some success there this weekend. We ran decent in February at Fontana, but we never really got a handle on the car. Hopefully we'll improve on that this week.

  

  Bobby Labonte
  • Success
  • Track
  • Improve

• Priority is a function of context.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Function
  • Priorities
  • Context