Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

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• I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Father
  • Success
  • Best

• I had no desire to crash a man's world.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Man
  • Desire

• Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • People
  • Care
  • Circumstances

• I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Friends
  • College
  • Forever

• The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Challenges
  • Leader
  • Manager

• We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Strength
  • Both
  • Femininity

• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Moral
  • Wine

• You are not a problem that needs solving.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Problem
  • Needs

• I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Good
  • Music
  • New

• If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Long
  • Interesting
  • See

• The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • History
  • Genius
  • Vinyl

• Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Work
  • Growth
  • Spending

• Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

  

  Sam Walton
  • People
  • Chance
  • Same

• When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

• I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.

  

  Augusto Pinochet

• I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

  

  Bill Griffith
  • Good

• Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active—of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • motivation

• In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Growth
  • Chance
  • Challenges

• If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Effectiveness

• And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sweet
  • Grave
  • Fancy

• I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Together
  • Jazz
  • Wayne

• Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Chance
  • motivation