Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.

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• I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Great
  • Hair
  • Oil

• In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.

  

  Halsey
  • Money
  • America
  • Guy

• I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Man
  • Changes

• Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Focus

• Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • She
  • Justice
  • Innocence

• Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Long
  • May

• When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Loved

• Much of the prejudice against Islam in the West stems from a lack of understanding of the true nature of Islam as a religion professed by 1.4 billion people in the world.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • World
  • True

• The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is.

  

  James Daly
  • People
  • Energy
  • Stock

• I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a child when I was in high school, so I kind of had that work phase in my life.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Life
  • Work
  • School

• Nevada is a little different than most states. We only meet every other year in the legislature. So it's very important to have good relationships on both sides of the aisle... I have to have those relationships.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Good
  • Different
  • Important

• I was 24 when I was blacklisted. I was 36 when I got off the blacklist. How much of a life does an actress have in L.A. past 25? ... I was really scared of having producers know that I was on my way to 40.

  

  Lee Grant
  • Life
  • Past

• You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson

• I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Writing

• People acquire a dog, don't understand it, can't train it, get fed up, and... offer it for adoption, hoping to pass on the problem to somebody else. But nobody wants a problem dog.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  • People
  • Up
  • Dog

• If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

  

  Don Mattingly
  • Trying

• Good poets borrow; great poets steal.

  

  David Shields
  • Good
  • Great

• Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

  

  John F. Kennedy

• Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Technology

• I wrote this [Most Kings] before MJ died, and his death only proves my point: When he was alive, the King of Pop, people were tireless in taking him down, accepting as truth every accusation people made against him, assuming the worst until they drove him away. When he died, suddenly he was beloved again - people realized that the charges against him might really have been bogus, and that the skin lightening was really caused by a disease, and that his weirdness was part of his artistry. But when he was alive and on top, they couldn't wait to bring him down.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Truth
  • Death

• I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

  

  Charles Grodin
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism. A girl has a right to dance how she wants, when her favourite record comes on.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • She
  • Girl
  • Action

• Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Technology
  • Powerful
  • Masters