Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone". Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.

Stephen Covey

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• To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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  • Loved
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• As we enter 2015, we are faced with overwhelming challenges. However, the dawn of 2015 also promises unlimited potential and the opportunity to begin rebuilding America.

  

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  • Opportunity
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• The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.

  

  Baba Kalyani
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• I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

  

  Dane Cook
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• It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem.

  

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• I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Past
  • Football
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• I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.

  

  V. E. Schwab
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• What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Pain

• My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Situation

• I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • People
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• Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Advice
  • Situation
  • Boss

• Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • High
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• I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Write
  • Situation

• I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

  

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  • Write
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  • Finish

• The time has come after an incredible six years to move on to new challenges.

  

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  • Time
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• Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

  

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• ...it's always been difficult for us to lead an examined life as a corporation. I've always felt like a company has the responsibility to not wait for the government to tell it what to do, or to wait for the consumer to tell it what to do, but as soon as it finds out it's doing something wrong, stop doing it.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Responsibility

• But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

  

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• Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.

  

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  • Situation
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• We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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  • Others

• I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

  

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• I see myself traveling; I see myself with a much bigger living space than I do have right now. I see myself hopefully on a tour bus at some point.

  

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• Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone". Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Goal
  • Difficult
  • Challenges