Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Stephen Covey

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• If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Mind
  • Doubt

• I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Mind
  • Guy
  • Me

• I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Mind
  • May
  • War

• Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Habit

• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Mind
  • Compelling

• When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Movie

• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Exist

• When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that comes to my mind is: splendid as he is, is there too much of Spencer Tracy.

  

  Basil Rathbone
  • Mind
  • Picture
  • First

• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Wonder

• The mind-stuff is not spread in space and time. But we must presume that in some other way or aspect it can be differentiated into parts. Only here and there does it arise to the level of consciousness, but from such islands proceeds all knowledge. The latter includes our knowledge of the physical world.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Value

• I do belong to Jersey. There's no doubt about that in my mind. They have been so loyal and so good to me; how could I possibly belong any place else?

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Doubt

• My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life
  • Winning

• I directed plays in college. It's something that I have sort of always put in the back of my mind, and I'm a busy actress, and it's very difficult to sort of find the time, honestly, to commit to directing. It's a very - it's a big, big job.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Job

• I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Peace

• In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young child I thought of them as my 'friends.'

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Friends

• Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Born
  • Kings
  • Artificial

• Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Country

• Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • Different
  • Will
  • Without

• In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mind
  • Winning
  • Motivational