Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.

Stephen Covey

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• My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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  • Different
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• We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Value

• Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Important
  • Hope
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• I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Life
  • Imagination
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• If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Dad
  • Day
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• Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • People
  • Different
  • Interesting

• I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • God
  • Important

• I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Friends
  • Technology
  • Understanding

• You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • May
  • Power
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• I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sexy

• I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Live
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• I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Real
  • School
  • Change

• I'm a huge gamer.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Huge
  • Gamer

• I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Trying
  • Day
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• When I'm not running, I cycle about 30 miles a day. I use the biking as cross training. I'm kind of a maniac. I race everybody.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Running
  • Day
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• Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were – Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • Time

• With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

  

  James Gleick
  • World
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• The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.'

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Book
  • Reading

• You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Family
  • Husband

• I'm drawn to cinema, especially when you're on a project that feels like it's going to be a challenge.

  

  Jim Sturgess
  • Challenge

• Gold is not less but more rational than paper money. Money holds value so long as it is in limited supply; gold will always be in limited supply, and would require real resources to produce even from the sea; paper and printing ink are not in limited supply. The gold system is much closer to a modern automatic scientific control system than the crude and relatively unstable system of paper.

  

  William E. Rees
  • Gold
  • Values
  • Modern

• Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Values
  • Reflection
  • Social