Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.

Stephen Covey

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• The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • History
  • Past

• I love designing bridal. I do not follow trends - I design dresses that are relevant to the times.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Design
  • Follow
  • Relevant

• One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Long
  • Man
  • Past

• I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Help
  • Past

• Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • American
  • Past
  • Lost

• I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Want
  • Past
  • Will

• I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Past
  • Training
  • Injuries

• So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Circumstances
  • Others
  • Tool

• Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Important
  • Past
  • Military

• Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • Past

• The Thing of the idols, the green, sticky spawn of the stars, had awaked to claim his own. The stars were right again, and what an age-old cult had failed to do by design, a band of innocent sailors had done by accident. After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
  • Done
  • Age

• Is this the visitor from the wrong side of the mirror? Or the shape that suddenly flitted past my window? Is it the new moon playing tricks, or is someone really standing there again between the stove and the cupboard?

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Past
  • Moon
  • Mirror

• Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Up
  • Age
  • Single

• A challenge always is good. Normal design does not come under the constraints of a small budget and time frame. But it has helped me to make quick and knowledgeable decisions.

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Small

• It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

  

  Peter Davison
  • Past
  • Poetry

• Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.

  

  Mahavira
  • Society
  • Same
  • Wealth

• The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Believe
  • Perfect
  • Goal

• I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own.

  

  Debby Ryan
  • Nature

• [The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Play
  • Emotion
  • Amounts

• As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Water

• Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Past
  • Design
  • Habit