Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

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

  

  Ed Markey
  • Important
  • Hope
  • Language

• I've just always been a bit of a dork.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Always
  • Just
  • Dork

• We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • People
  • Serious
  • Choose

• When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Live
  • Small
  • Paris

• Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • See
  • Loving

• When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Think
  • Door
  • Garden

• It's not my ambition to be a big star.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Star
  • Ambition
  • Big

• My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Me
  • Husband
  • Too Much

• Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Young
  • Bedrock

• I read good. I was an English major.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • English
  • Read

• In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Fun

• We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.

  

  Ian Hart
  • World
  • War
  • Think

• 'I frankly doubt that.''Ah. That is your privilege. But doubt doesn’t alter fact, sir.'

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Doubt

• I select good scripts, and every role is an opportunity to enhance my histrionic skills.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Good
  • Opportunity

• A season is very long, and there will be periods where you'll be very good and moments where you won't be as good.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Good
  • Long
  • Moments

• Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • May

• It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.

  

  Vinoba Bhave
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Accepted

• Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Real
  • Money

• Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mind
  • Decision
  • Values