Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.

Stephen Covey

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• Vision
• Balance
• Perspective
• Speed
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• Anything that looks good makes you feel better.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Better

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • Education
  • Support

• I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Think
  • U.S.
  • Administration

• Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

  

  Galeazzo Ciano
  • Victory
  • Defeat
  • Orphan

• I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Teenager
  • Rebellious

• And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Fine
  • Wants
  • Honestly

• One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

  

  Barry Mann
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Possible

• Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Social

• People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Try
  • Fake

• I saw and loved.

  

  Edward Gibbon

• What I have learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.

  

  Leonard Mlodinow
  • Important
  • Success
  • Control

• I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Horse

• The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Period

• If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Help

• It's important for Asian American kids to see themselves in stories and to feel seen. They need to know that their stories are universal, too, that they, too, can fall in love in a teen movie. They don't have to be the sidekick; they can be the hero.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Important
  • Kids
  • American

• You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.

  

  Mary Gaitskill

• I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Live
  • Poverty

• Thinking of the dismissal by Leicester, the first thing that comes to mind is a sense of surprise even more than of bitterness.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.

  

  Jenji Kohan

• My eye? It's a genetic thing. My dad had it, and now I have it. You know, I just found out that it may be correctable a little bit, because it does impair my vision. When I look up, I lose sight in this eye. I think, maybe for other people, it informs the way they see me.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Small

• We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Purpose
  • Vision
  • Balance