Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.

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• I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Day

• In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Death
  • Situation
  • Danger

• By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • City
  • Best
  • Hockey

• I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Try
  • Face
  • Dress

• Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • World
  • Ability
  • Take

• I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Positive
  • Media

• Whenever we had career day at elementary school, and we could dress up like what you wanted to be, when I got on stage, mine was playing major league baseball.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Up
  • School
  • Career

• The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Mind

• For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to open a cookbook and see a recipe that goes on for three to four pages, well, I've lost interest.

  

  Al Roker
  • Book
  • Lost
  • Attention

• As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.

  

  Atom Egoyan
  • Important

• I always talk with models and they always tell me how awful it was growing up being tall and skinny. Then when you're older, you're really glad. I think it's nice to have been through a terrible time and then all of a sudden be so lucky because then you appreciate it.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Beautiful
  • Ballet

• I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.

  

  Jessica Stroup
  • Work
  • Different
  • Cold

• Things can change on a daily basis in television. You can be introduced to aspects of your character that you had no idea existed because they didn't exist a week before. The next week it might be taken away from you in some way that you can't control.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • Character
  • Control
  • Taken

• We at ESPN like competition. It makes us better. It makes us sharper.

  

  John Skipper
  • Competition

• Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

  

  Dougray Scott

• Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.

  

  Peter Mullan
  • People
  • Society
  • Interesting

• What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Important
  • Book
  • English

• We're crafting versions of our TotalGuide Solution to work on both legacy devices as well as new and advanced boxes with varying levels of services based on the capabilities of the set-top box and network.

  

  Alfred Amoroso
  • Work
  • Legacy

• Once human beings had developed higher-order consciousness, they had the ability to see mental images projected onto surfaces and to experience afterimages.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Human
  • Consciousness
  • Developed

• Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May: Waiting for the pleasant rambles Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles, Where the woodbine alternating, Scent the dewy way; Ah! my heart is weary, waiting, Waiting for the May.

  

  Denis Florence MacCarthy
  • May
  • Waiting
  • Pleasant

• We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Difference
  • Differences
  • Legacy