Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

Stephen Covey

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• You have to know you can first. How comes later.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • You
  • Know
  • First

• Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Always
  • Going

• I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Drama

• For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Me

• Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

  

  Gary Cole
  • You
  • Things
  • Point

• The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • People
  • Done
  • Thought

• You can forgive yourself a great deal.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Great
  • Yourself
  • Forgive

• There is a month, a year, there is a time In which majesty is a mirror of the self: I have not but I am and as I am, I am.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Mirror

• It's really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don't have as much responsibility when you're acting, but you have more fun. But then you miss having that responsibility, and so you go back and torture yourself and make a movie.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Responsibility

• There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Coffee

• Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • God
  • Wolf

• I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.

  

  Bruce Coville
  • Writing

• I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since childhood.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Friends
  • Amazing
  • Childhood

• I work so hard that I forget to take care of myself.

  

  David Chang
  • Work

• Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Men
  • Hand
  • Brain

• I find my vocabulary is quite a lot better when I'm hungover. I feel like I unlock a key of words that I don't usually use in day-to-day life.

  

  Ella McMahon
  • Life
  • Words

• I'm very grateful for the way that I feel when I play. I feel very powerful, I feel fast, I feel unstoppable, and that's because of my body.

  

  Christen Press
  • Powerful

• We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.

  

  Bubba Smith
  • Training

• Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.

  

  Genevieve Behrend
  • Want
  • Fear
  • Everything

• It looks to me like the Republican Party`s in no mood to give them [voters] a reasonable choice with this clown show going on right now from the likes of, well, Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump. What a duo.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Giving
  • Party
  • Choices

• I was born in Sherman Oaks, California.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • California

• We're always hardest on our own work, I guess.

  

  Barbara Jane Reyes
  • Hardest
  • Guess

• Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Choices