Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

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• I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Long
  • Care

• As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Today
  • Health
  • Better

• I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Democratic
  • Normally

• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Interesting

• I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.

  

  Larry Bird
  • School
  • Think
  • Thought

• It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

  

  Oliver Evans
  • Think
  • Right
  • Communication

• Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Women
  • Power
  • Understand

• You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Life
  • Appreciate
  • Bed

• Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Never
  • Should

• I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Worry
  • Chance
  • Take

• After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • Impact

• I started composing when I was around 13, and back then, people used to say that I needed to be a composer or a performer, but I can't be good at both of them. I could never understand why anyone would say that. Jellyroll did both, Bessie Smith did both, and so did I.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • True
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• I finally learned from Fred Durst, who is of my generation, that 'selling out' means every ticket at The Forum got sold. I don't think Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera sit there agonizing over their record sales. The term 'sell out' needs to be eradicated from the language, because if you don't 'sell out,' guess what? An asshole will.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Sales
  • Asshole

• No matter what, I'm in a very small club. There are very few women who have directed studio-level commercial films - very few.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Women
  • Small

• Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn't take classes, and I didn't do anything to hone my skills.

  

  Bernice King
  • Style

• I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Imagination

• The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Different
  • Discipline
  • First

• People say, 'What a discipline, painting so much.' I say, 'No, I love it.' Nothing amuses me as much as my work. To have discipline would be not to paint.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Work
  • Painting

• Control your life through insanity.

  

  Cliff Burton Metallica
  • Life
  • Control
  • Insanity

• The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • God
  • May

• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Leadership
  • Discipline
  • Management