Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.

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• The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Game
  • Heaven

• Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Space

• To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Professional

• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Ugly
  • Reached
  • Puberty

• The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Death
  • Genius
  • Stone

• We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Up
  • Change
  • Win

• I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Music
  • Record
  • Gentleman

• Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Great
  • Bad

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • World

• For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford
  • People
  • Business

• Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.

  

  Charles Duhigg

• When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Smoking

• Your mother embarrasses you in front of maybe a couple hundred people. My mother embarrasses me in front of millions.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • People
  • Mother
  • Couple

• You're a song written by the hands of God.

  

  Shakira
  • God
  • Song

• Novels set in distant places give us expectations not unlike those we have of travel writing, and often the distinctions are blurred, as in, say, the way the low life of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward is depicted in John David Morley's recent 'Pictures from the Water Trade.'

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Water

• For me, great jazz records really feel like everyone in the room is playing together in a zone - and all the musicians are completely in sync with each other.

  

  Benny Cassette
  • Great
  • Together

• I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Water
  • Drink
  • Doctor

• Cash-strapped cities in nations from Argentina to Albania have begun to turn over their municipal water systems to Big Water, often under lease arrangements that can continue in force for decades.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Water

• One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• Each man follows the path of destiny, but no two paths are alike. It seems that mine now runs into a place of evil intent, wasted wisdom, and stupidity.

  

  Andre Norton
  • Wisdom
  • Evil
  • Path

• If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Wonder
  • Wine

• If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Water
  • Flower
  • Motivational