Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.

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• I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Technology
  • Crime

• I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • American
  • Earth

• If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • People
  • Way
  • Performance

• He had delusions of adequacy.

  

  Walter Kerr
  • Had
  • Delusions
  • Adequacy

• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
  • Men
  • Movement

• A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Person
  • Master
  • Dignity

• I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Dying

• Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Long
  • Power
  • Day

• Millennials are a very interesting generation for a lot of reasons. They're absolutely adorable, but they have some significant challenges. Their lives and their careers are delayed by about 10 years, partly because of the recession, also because of technology and also because of the way that they approach things.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Interesting
  • Technology
  • Challenges

• I'm a huge gamer.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Huge
  • Gamer

• Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Movies

• Beauty is very much broader than just to the eye. It is our whole, positive response to life. An artist is fortunate in that his work is the inner contemplation of beauty, of perfection in life. We cannot make anything perfectly, but with inner contemplation of perfection, we can suggest it.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Positive

• There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell!

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • People
  • Warrior
  • Fierce

• Had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Drinking
  • Accepted
  • Juice

• Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Profession

• It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • Important
  • Long
  • Certain

• A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Money
  • Man
  • Principles

• Advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

  

  Ann Bridge
  • Values
  • Advertising
  • False

• In the past six months, our federal government has devised a dozen strategies to save America's financial markets. Each plan has been more costly, more risky, and less aligned with the principles of our country's free market economy than the last. I am disappointed to say that this latest plan puts all the rest of them to shame.

  

  Michael Enzi
  • Government
  • Economy
  • Plan

• I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • World
  • Perfect

• Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Values
  • Behavior
  • Principles