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

• There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Men
  • Sleep
  • Door

• Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Change
  • Permanent
  • Flux

• When you go to vacuum in the airlock and you take the hose off the front of your space suit, there's a little bit of water in there, and you can see that sublimate and ice crystals form and fly away. My thought at that moment was, 'Oh, we are not kidding at vacuum here; we are really in space.'

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Space
  • Water
  • Fly

• Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.

  

  Frederick Marryat
  • Water
  • Angry
  • Ocean

• Why did I follow her? If you must know, Sir, it was easy. Pound for pound, Puss-in-Boots was the best commander I ever served under.

  

  L.A. Meyer
  • Why
  • Easy
  • Boots

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

  

  Stephen Covey
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  • Flower
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