Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.

Stephen Covey

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• I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Want

• Insults are the business of the court.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Business
  • Court
  • Insults

• What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Page

• I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Pop Music

• I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Started

• Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • Men
  • Food
  • Cook

• Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Up
  • Long
  • Growth

• That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Find
  • Place
  • Conquer

• I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with freedom and still mix up the pace, mix up the spins and everything like that. That's what I want to be doing, because you get into that very one-dimensional kind of tennis if you don't work on slicing and coming into the net.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Real
  • Experience

• I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Roles
  • Warrior
  • Pursuing

• A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Help
  • Never
  • Champion

• When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Life
  • Food
  • Light

• The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • True
  • Culture
  • Confidence

• How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • You
  • Suffering
  • Regret

• I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I'm wondering when you hit the age where people say, 'Oh, OK, he's not so young.'

  

  Anthony Marra
  • People
  • Age

• People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.

  

  James Cook
  • People
  • Problem
  • Government

• One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.

  

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

• Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

  

  Edna Buchanan
  • Children
  • Money
  • Write

• Couture occupies the uppermost stratosphere of fashion. It is the holy of holies, as only about 2,000 women globally are fortunate enough to wear these precious garments tailored to their exact measurements, making it perhaps the most exclusive club in the world.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • World
  • Women
  • Fashion

• People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Job
  • Action
  • Problem