Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

Stephen Covey

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• It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Movie
  • Black

• Golf is played with the arms.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Golf
  • Played
  • Arms

• I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot more bold, a lot more loquacious. There are a lot more words that go into a hip-hop song than go into a regular song.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • America
  • Song
  • Society

• Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Done
  • Golf

• You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Choose

• I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Kids
  • Anxiety
  • Pressure

• I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Skill

• We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Start
  • Looking

• I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Start

• It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Done
  • Me
  • Funny

• I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Time
  • Angry

• I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Work
  • High
  • Expectations

• I think I'm a million different faces.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Different
  • Think
  • Million

• Right now, I don't have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children, I see responsibilities, which I don't think I'm quite ready for. I feel the same about puppies. They're cute for a second, but there's a lot of responsibility involved.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Women
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• France has a specificity - the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators, and all of the players are French. They had a habit of, let's say, getting along with each other, and the prices traditionally were very high.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • High
  • Habit
  • Internet

• David Chase is a genius.

  

  Frank Vincent

• When I said I was going to become a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they're not laughing now, are they?

  

  Bob Monkhouse

• God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Wine
  • Crush

• I have asked James Shabazz, I've asked other people who are members of the OAAU, Herman Ferguson and others, what led to that disastrous decision [that the guards didn't carry weapons]? James Shabazz said to me with a shrug, you just didn't know Malcolm. Malcolm was adamant, and that whatever Malcolm wanted, that's what we just did.

  

  Manning Marable
  • People
  • Decision
  • Members

• What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Purpose
  • Talent
  • Achieve

• At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Want
  • Situation

• Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Lies
  • Situation
  • Paper

• From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Situation
  • Winner
  • Resentment