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

• I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Fat

• 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

• One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Want
  • Know
  • Intuition

• 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

• Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • She
  • Beautiful

• I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I get very spiky if people treat me like an old lady.

  

  Anne Reid
  • People

• And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Green

• Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

  

  Francis Parker Yockey
  • Feeling

• 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