Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

Stephen Covey

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• Plant
• Grows
• Pieces
• Roots
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• I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Together
  • Brains

• Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Important
  • Family
  • American

• I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Terrorism
  • Roots
  • Call

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Quality

• I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Love
  • American

• Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Truth
  • Together
  • Band

• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Together
  • Soul

• 'Quality' means what will sell and do a customer some good - at least try to.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Good
  • Quality
  • Customer

• When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Together
  • Hand

• It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Good
  • Different
  • Together

• I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we kind of get together occasionally, but I wouldn't say it's an alliance or anything like that.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Together
  • Kind
  • Los Angeles

• I think I'm an athlete who's trained as an actor, and when you smash it all together, you get whatever Omari is doing as a performer right now.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Together
  • Think
  • Doing

• So today, let me say: Sisters and brothers of India - my confidence in what our nations can achieve together is rooted in the values we share. For we may have our different histories and speak different languages, but when we look at each other, we see a reflection of ourselves.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Different
  • May
  • Together

• Shakspeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven: but this does not refute my general assertion.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Together

• The post-war 'publish or perish' tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. ... One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Book
  • War
  • Quality

• Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It’s all about business.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Business
  • Together

• Entertainment and information work well together.

  

  Marvin Sapp
  • Work
  • Together

• Senator Obama and I had been on the same side of many fights, and we had worked together on the issue that is most urgent to me - comprehensive immigration reform.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Together
  • Immigration

• I'm excited about it. It's been about five or six years since I was involved with the All-Star game, and we had a good time together.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Together
  • Game
  • Excited

• In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her.

  

  Edmund White
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Woman

• Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Together
  • Quality
  • Plant