Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.

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• If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Words
  • Same

• Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Forget

• I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Reason
  • Feel
  • Connected

• You never know what the future brings.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Future
  • Know
  • Never

• I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • Family
  • Church

• I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Brother

• It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Real
  • Fun

• Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • You
  • Best
  • Voice

• Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Like
  • Software
  • Venture

• The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Emotional

• I've always enjoyed seeing how things are made.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Made
  • Seeing
  • How

• When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.

  

  Faith Ford
  • School
  • High
  • Dance

• Man's life? A candle in the wind, hoar-frost on stone.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Wind

• Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fun

• The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

  

  Mason Cooley

• I signed with Big Yellow Dog and have been with them for years. The president of the company is a woman named Carla Wallace, who is an amazing publisher who just has a knack for female artists.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Amazing
  • Dog

• I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Songs

• I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in Washington as both a reporter and an editor I'm keenly aware that a newspaper should not be dominated by stories in which the only voices and perspective come from those in power.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • Time
  • Power
  • Career

• When push comes to shove, my children always come first, and I am lucky that I work in an environment that respects that.

  

  Marianne Lake
  • Work
  • Children
  • Environment

• In 1981, while doing postdoctoral field work in cultural anthropology, Bonnie A. Nardi lived with villagers in Western Samoa, trying to understand the cultural reasons that people there have an average of eight children.

  

  Katie Hafner
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• Videogames make you feel like you're actually doing something. Your brain processes the tiered game achievements as real-life achievements. Every time you get to the next level, hot jets of reward chemical coat your brain in a lathery foam, and it seems like you're actually accomplishing stuff.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me; it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting.

  

  Charlie Hunter
  • Up
  • Great
  • Trying

• I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

  

  Max Irons
  • Free
  • Reading
  • Travel

• It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Response