Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!

Stephen Covey

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• I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Paper
  • Shower

• I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • Job
  • Living

• On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Law

• Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Think
  • Know
  • Road

• I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Life
  • Family
  • Surviving

• I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Television

• Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Great
  • Day
  • Couple

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Think
  • Democracy
  • Limits

• I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Think
  • Teach
  • Patience

• Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Art
  • Same

• As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • World
  • Ideas

• I think film cannot only teleport you to places you don't know, but it can help you see people you thought were one way and in fact are another. They can allow us to examine ourselves.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Help
  • Thought

• We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Take
  • Wave
  • Mother`s

• Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Power
  • Free
  • Doing

• Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Life
  • Money
  • Short

• So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Mean
  • Taken
  • Exercise

• For 'Frost/Nixon,' I had eight people who were present at those interviews - they were all in the room - and when I interviewed each of them, they had a totally different narrative of events, to the degree where you thought, 'Were you all really in the same room?'

  

  Peter Morgan
  • People
  • Different
  • Present

• Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • Done
  • Deep

• A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Stupid

• The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

  

  Joe Slovo
  • Preparation

• Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!

  

  Stephen Covey
  • People
  • Problem
  • Ideas