Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.

Stephen Covey

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• Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Moon

• I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Work
  • Business
  • Age

• Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Success
  • Courage
  • Luck

• I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Meet
  • Ignoring
  • Portfolio

• I think in any profession, in general, you always imagine yourself at the top of it. And I'm not trying to say I'm at the top of my profession, but I've seen what the top people do and what the top people live like. And that's definitely something I want to be a part of.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Truth

• Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Father
  • Joy
  • Friendship

• Faith, by definition, is a risk.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Faith
  • Risk

• WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!

  

  Linus Torvalds

• A man’s body and the needs of his body are now everywhere treated with a tender indulgence. Is the thinking mind then, to be the only thing that is never to obtain the slightest measure of consideration or protection, to say nothing of respect?

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Respect

• The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

  

  Christopher Hitchens

• Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it. You know, so we start to see our decisions, our opportunities, our every choice is a consumer choice.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Music

• I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Work
  • School
  • Art

• I didn't study; I live.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Live
  • Study

• I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.'

  

  Mary Lynn Rajskub
  • Character

• I play video games a lot... I love to read... I enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter, who are my most favorite people in the world.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I grew up with a truck. My dad had one, so I like trucks.

  

  Lucas Till
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Truck

• A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

  

  Emma Thompson
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• So many people are busy working now, but we need to go back to the old days when grandma and the neighbors helped raise the children, and we were all the better for it.

  

  Kym Whitley
  • People
  • Children
  • Grandma

• I'm addicted to change and therefore I get bored easily. Results have always motivated me, which has led me to developing ways to measure things that historically have not been measurable.

  

  Amy Jo Martin
  • Bored
  • Motivated

• Of course whenever you make the playoffs it's an exciting time of year. All the past records go out the window, but at the same time it's a one-shot deal and you have to get it right the first time or else you have to go home for the summer. Every kids' dream is to make it to the state tournament. Our kids are no different from anybody else.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Home

• You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Life
  • Good
  • Actor

• It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.

  

  Stephen Covey