Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.

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• O' beautiful, for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that we elected king.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Skies

• I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, 'What a f***ing good-looking f*** you are.' And then I brighten up.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Mirror
  • Suppose
  • Goodbyes

• Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, what salutes of cannon and small arms!

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Arms
  • Seasons
  • Gathered

• Pity's tears are spontaneous.

  

  Anna Cora Mowatt
  • Tears
  • Pity
  • Spontaneous

• The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.

  

  Dan Kimball
  • Teaching
  • Taught
  • Paradigm

• Every time the satyrs had spotted a fast food joint that they recognized from a commercial, they had hollered for a meal break. Vanessa had not always conceded, but whenever an opportunity was presented, Newel and Doren had inexhaustibly consumed milkshakes, burgers, sandwiches, tacos, nachos, pretzels, nuts, beef jerky, trail mix, soda, doughnuts, candy bars, cookies, crackers, and aerosol cheese. Of the fifty most impressive belches Seth had witnessed in his life, all had occurred on this road trip.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Opportunity
  • Recognized
  • Milkshake

• I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.

  

  Stephen A. Schwarzman
  • People
  • World
  • Company

• I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.

  

  Rebel Wilson
  • School
  • Reason
  • Drama

• I think we need to feel, to come together, to look at our differences as a benefit to who we are as people on the same planet.

  

  Milo Ventimiglia
  • People
  • Together
  • Differences

• I couldn't believe it. It was unbelievable, that's why. My face was like a frozen fish finger. All rigid and pale. (But obviously not with breadcrumbs on it.)

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Faces

• It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Balance
  • Unbelievable
  • Aircraft

• We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Writing
  • Horror
  • Unbelievable

• Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Dead
  • Unbelievable

• Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• Growing up, I was always the small guy.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Small

• Committed teachers know their students' needs better than anyone in the system. Traditionally, however, teachers have little control over the purchase of student materials.

  

  Charles Best
  • Control

• Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another's explanation our defilements will disappear. When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Understanding
  • Listening
  • Meditation

• The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Unbelievable