Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

Stephen Covey

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• When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Real
  • Home
  • Nice

• Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Real
  • Team
  • Sometimes

• Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Real
  • Enjoy
  • Hunger

• People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • Real
  • Data

• I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Real
  • Home

• On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Real
  • Free

• That's what's so special about 'One Life to Live:' it's just this real family in the sense of, we're only as strong as our weakest link. It behooves us to help people who haven't done the genre because it makes us all look better.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I really enjoy playing a sex symbol, but it's not something I feel in real life. I'm much more of a natural girl at home.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Life
  • Real
  • Home

• I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Real
  • Trying

• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • inspirational
  • Excellence
  • Perfection

• It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Real
  • Season

• Every terrible thing in the world was caused by a whole combination of things. But everybody wanted to narrow it down to one cause-and not even the real one. Much better to have one cause-one person to punish. Then the unbearable could be borne.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • World
  • Real

• It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

  

  James Galway
  • Real
  • Trying

• What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Real
  • Plato

• We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Real
  • Identity

• I don't feel like a live set even seems super real for an electronic act like me. It's not really that entertaining. I've seen a lot of my favourite acts take it to a new level with a live band and stuff, which is amazing, but for me, a live set would be boring to watch.

  

  Kaytranada
  • Live
  • Real
  • Amazing

• After having a real baby, I was sitting on a doughnut for a month.

  

  Katie Lowes
  • Real
  • Baby

• It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.

  

  Edward Bok
  • Country
  • American
  • Single

• It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

  

  David Gower
  • Up
  • Question
  • Responsibility

• I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Scene
  • Whole
  • Showbiz

• That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Fighting

• Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Real
  • Ability
  • Natural