Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

Stephen Covey

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• There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Lose
  • Speed

• Love is a credulous thing.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Thing

• I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Beautiful
  • Red
  • Ever

• In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • War
  • Law
  • Democracy

• I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Love
  • Working
  • Friday

• As an older child, I was a huge 'Anne Of Green Gables' fan.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Child
  • Green
  • Fan

• There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Live
  • Moral

• The PGA Tour has a lot of interaction with our military, and I've grown to have an incredible respect for our troops who are coming home with these horrific injuries, as well as any organization that can not only help them get healed up, but help them get integrated back into society.

  

  Fred Funk
  • Up
  • Home
  • Help

• I always love where I can plug a black woman in anywhere, and when that comes up, I don't say, 'Oh that has to be a black woman.' I say, 'Why not a black woman?'

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Up
  • Why
  • Black

• Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • People
  • Why

• Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Work
  • Humanity

• I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Guy

• I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.

  

  Jamal Lewis
  • Life
  • Children

• Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

  

  Diogenes
  • Intelligent
  • Silly

• You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Seuss.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Deep

• I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

  

  John Hurt
  • Remember
  • Party

• If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

  

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher
  • Imagination
  • Humanity

• Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere

  

  Alain Finkielkraut
  • Silence
  • Dies
  • Clamor

• Everyone wants to be an arena act, and it's making country music evolve. People are cutting things more for that arena environment. But who's to say that that is a sign of any more of a successful career than what James Taylor has been able to do, when he still comes and plays the Ryman every two years?

  

  Tracy Lawrence
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems.

  

  Antonio Gala
  • Love
  • Poetry
  • Feelings

• I gotta follow my heart. It ain't football. If football made me complete, I would play. But whenever I think of it, my heart pulls me away from whatever reason... This means I'm done.

  

  Rolando McClain
  • Football
  • Would
  • Whatever

• The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Environment
  • Feelings
  • Ability