Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.

Stephen Covey

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• Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sure
  • Excellent
  • Anybody

• It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Lies
  • Taste
  • Mediocrity

• Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
  • Quality
  • Excellent

• Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Achievement
  • Gift
  • Strive

• I strive to create new opportunities in terms of partnerships and new works being presented and things you haven't seen anywhere else. Also to help you see old things in ways you haven't seen them before.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Help
  • Opportunities
  • Strive

• Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Excellent
  • McDonald

• Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Perfect
  • Excellence
  • Strive

• Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • War
  • Strive
  • Away

• Only the insecure strive for security.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Security
  • Strive
  • Insecure

• Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

  

  Saint Basil
  • May
  • Light
  • Fall

• I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Real
  • Book
  • Serious

• What is easy is seldom excellent.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Experience
  • Easy
  • Excellent

• Home's the most excellent place of all.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Home
  • Excellent

• Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Kind

• The thing that all of us should strive for is to so live, keeping the commandments of the Lord, that He can answer our prayers. If we will live worthy, then the Lord will guide us - by a personal appearance, or by His actual voice, or by His voice coming into our mind, or by impressions upon our heart and our soul. And oh, how grateful we ought to be if the Lord sends us a dream in which is revealed to us the beauties of the eternity or a warning and direction for our special comfort. Yes, if we so live, the Lord will guide us for our salvation and for our benefit.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Fate" Eve said with a sigh "I'm not sure fate had to burn up your car to get the point across," Shane said, buckling his own seatbelt. "No, not that. The hearse. I'm going to name it Fate." Shane stared at Eve for a long, long few seconds, then slowly shook his head. "Have you considered medication, or-" She flipped him off. "Ah. Back to normal. Excellent.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Long
  • She

• Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

  

  A. Y. Jackson
  • Business
  • Artist
  • Excellent

• If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Truth
  • Ifs

• I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album.

  

  Estelle
  • Food
  • Enjoy
  • Difference

• It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do with your life, you will never stop needing your mum. And I will never stop needing mine, so thanks, Mum.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • You
  • Stop

• My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.

  

  Nancy Mairs
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Act

• My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Cutting

• Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Strive
  • Excellent
  • Prioritize