Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.

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• I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Know

• We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Work
  • Live
  • Together

• I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Vision
  • Pride
  • Director

• As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Thought
  • Modern
  • Principles

• Hardcore fans have a vision in their head, and if they look at your cosplay of it, you may not fit their vision.

  

  Yaya Han
  • May
  • Vision
  • Look

• I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Walk

• My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Work
  • Country
  • Future

• Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Success
  • Vision
  • Hollywood

• Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • True
  • Control
  • Principles

• It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Family
  • School
  • Values

• Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Community
  • Support
  • Vision

• I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want. I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Free

• Cézanne's painting is strictly painting, and its value is immense; but Van Gogh's painting has the Outsider's characteristic: it is a laboratory refuse of a man who treated his own life as an experiment in living; it faithfully records moods and developments of vision on the manner of a Bildungsroman.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Vision
  • Painting

• If you really want to be an actress, go to school. I think it's great what people are doing on YouTube, but don't forget to go to class. Have a vision for yourself, but don't forget to do the work.

  

  Bresha Webb
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Small
  • Vision
  • Internet

• Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any innovation, broadband will inflict major changes on its environment. It will destroy, once and for all, the egalitarian vision of the Internet.

  

  Charles Platt
  • Environment
  • Vision
  • Innovation

• Creating the future means having a global vision and an extreme focus on the approachability of what we're creating.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Future
  • Focus
  • Vision

• I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Wonder
  • Film
  • Enough

• The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be uttered; it can only be felt and acted. It is, in fact, an open secret, and each man knows it according to his quest and capacity. Like all things worth knowing, no one can know it for another and no man can know it alone.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Life
  • Men
  • Secret

• Events are the best opportunities to experiment with clothes, as we have to stick to a character in films.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Character
  • Best
  • Clothes

• Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Goals
  • Microsoft
  • Mac

• I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Guy
  • House
  • Religious

• Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Vision
  • Values
  • Principles