Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
-
Motivation is the key. More than training, more than experience or age, motivation counts. You have to ask yourself: 'Why am I racing?' I race because I like it, because I'm really enjoying it. I like to set up my bike and ride it on track. After 20 years in the GPs I'm still highly motivated. Everything else is a consequence.
-
Elections are the only way civilized countries can express themselves.
-
The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.
-
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
-
The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
-
I always begin to compose the melody first.
-
When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to prioritize is paralyzed by the sheer volume of requests, demands, opportunities, and information.
-
Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.
-
I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.
-
The Ari I used to be didn't exist anymore. And the Ari I was becoming? He didn't exist yet.
-
When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.
-
Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke.
-
Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousness falls away and often expresses itself in the face of a sleeper.
-
Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young
-
Because the process of innovation often relies heavily on the combining and recombining of previous innovations, the broader and deeper the pool of accessible ideas and individuals, the more opportunities there are for innovation.
-
As you give God your time, your gifts, your resources and talents, He will use them to have a critically important and eternal impact on this world.
-
Reflections can sometimes lie in order for the mind to try. Create your own butterfly wings. We are all valid.
