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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.

  

  Don Rickles
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Work

• I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly

• Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

  

  Jean Racine
  • Justice

• I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

  

  Mary Garden
  • Done

• If I go to a conference and someone tells me that they learned how to develop websites on Sitepoint and now they're a CTO at a company earning almost $200,000 a year, that lets me know that I'm doing the right thing.

  

  Matt Mickiewicz

• In a time of global uncertainty, rising terrorism, and enormous threats to peace, it's right that we as a country should now seek to extend our diplomatic footprint overseas.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Time
  • Country
  • Peace

• I don't just try to be funny.

  

  Bil Keane
  • Funny

• When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Up
  • Future
  • Growing

• I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Character
  • Independent
  • Stories

• I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

  

  Frank Stella
  • World
  • Art

• The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • World
  • Writing
  • Heart

• 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