Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.
Quotes to Explore
-
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
-
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
-
I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
-
I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
-
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
-
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
-
I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
-
Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
-
There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
-
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
-
The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
-
The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.
-
Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynamic; space is imbued with movement expressed by forces and counterforces; space vibrates and resounds with color, light and form in the rhythm of life.
-
Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
-
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
-
There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
-
It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
-
The state is primarily an organization for killing foreigners.
-
The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.
-
Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.
-
The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.
-
A lot of people I've played with see me as a scorer and a shooter. I'm still fast and everything like that, but then, when they see me dunk, it's like 'Oh, damn.'
-
I'm a redneck.
-
Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.
