Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.

Stephen Covey

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• I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Book

• I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Beautiful
  • Thought
  • Beauty

• To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Focus
  • Ideas
  • Person

• Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Figures
  • 20th Century

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Life
  • Why
  • Society

• I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Band

• I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Go

• Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Funny
  • Friend
  • Humor

• New thinking. Unleashing growth that creates opportunity. Promoting development that lifts all people out of poverty.Supporting democracy that gives citizens their say. Advancing the security and justice that delivers peace. Respecting the human rights of all people. These are the keys to progress - not just in Africa, but around the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.

  

  Margaret Mead

• The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - or stimulus bill, as it is often called - is a perfect example in which dire circumstances necessitate immediate action. But with such large amounts of taxpayer money at stake, a hastily developed, under-thought-out plan could have been disastrous.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Money
  • American
  • Action

• I try to reciprocate and to give back to the fans with my performances, like a big 'thank you' for the love they show me.

  

  Diego Costa

• The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Live

• It's important to experience as many parts of an organization as you can - because some day, you may have the chance to lead that organization.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Important
  • May
  • Experience

• Occasionally I'll be a producer for hire on a larger budget movie, but with Blumhouse Pictures, we mainly focus on micro-budget, under-$5-million-dollar movies. That's what we're in business to do, and that's what we're in business to make.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Focus

• It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.

  

  David Sanborn
  • Relationship
  • Focus
  • Ego

• My focus is to push the medium to be what it truly can be. Something well beyond 360-video, which is where a lot of the initial money has gone…but, of course, it’s not real VR if you don’t have agency. So what I’ve been looking for for 25 years is that undiscovered country between gameplay and linear narrative and the emotional engagement of a cinematic narrative. And that takes a huge combination of interesting technological enablements, as well as an understanding of how to bring a multidisciplinary team on a process that is upside-down the traditional process.

  

  Brett Leonard
  • Country
  • Real
  • Interesting

• I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Live

• Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency, give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.

  

  Aaron Francis Broussard
  • People
  • Today
  • Caring

• If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Focus
  • Attitude
  • Behavior