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

• If you ever really want to get away from it all and see something that you have never seen, and have an excellent chance of seeing something no one has ever seen, get in a sub. You climb in, seal the hatch, turn on a little oxygen, turn on the scrubber, which removes the CO2 in the air you breathe, and they chuck you overboard. Down you go.

  

  Mike deGruy
  • Something
  • Really
  • Breathe

• A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.

  

  William Cowper
  • Life
  • Success
  • Water

• I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I'm having fun. I'm just not having as much fun as people make out.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • People
  • Fun
  • Boy

• Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Fashion

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

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Strive
  • Excellent
  • Prioritize