Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

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• I'm the blackest villain of all time.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Time
  • Villain
  • Blackest

• 'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.

  

  Randy West
  • Great
  • Game
  • Moments

• Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Forget
  • Healthy

• I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Cool

• It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Guy
  • Style
  • Guitar

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Me
  • Show

• I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Play
  • Never
  • Broadway

• I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Question
  • Day

• For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • She
  • Man

• It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • See
  • Numbers

• Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Know
  • Best
  • Spirit

• I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

  

  Carly Craig
  • People
  • Writing
  • Funny

• we made love on the living room floorwith the noise in the background of a televised warand in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone sayif we walk away they'll walk away

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• To me, it's so much about doing your homework, going into a situation, getting to know the subject, making them feel comfortable, getting intimate access, getting access to all different aspects of people's lives so that I am essentially telling an entire story and not just a single image.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • People
  • Different
  • Single

• Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV. There was very little Kenyan material, because we had an autocratic ruler who stifled our creative expression.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Up
  • She
  • American

• This pro football player once sent me 100 teddy bears, asking me to fly to one of his games and go to dinner. I didn't do it - it was just too weird.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Football
  • Player
  • Weird

• C'est n'avoir pas perdu tout votre temps à Rome,Que vous savoir ainsi défendre en galant homme:Vous avez de l'esprit, si vous n'avez du cœur.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Idiosyncratic
  • High-entropy

• It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Adult
  • Figure Out
  • Young Person

• I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Action
  • Confidence
  • Feelings

• I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Reach
  • Catch
  • Land Of Tears

• The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Way
  • Courage
  • Goal