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 think a lot of officers go into that line of work because they have a calling for it. But at some point, they find themselves in the middle of their lives having seen some of the darkest things that are just unimaginable to the rest of us.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Work
  • Think
  • Rest

• 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

• If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Character
  • Sexy

• I've just always loved really good projects. The things that draw me into a new project have very little to do with genre and have more to do with the characters I'll be playing, the people I'll get to work with and things like that.

  

  Jewel Staite
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• 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'd love to have a child. Either one or 40. I love kids.

  

  Chris Kattan
  • Kids

• I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.

  

  Charlie Simpson Busted
  • Music

• Love, he thought as he held her to his heart, was an agony beyond compare.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Heart
  • Compare
  • Agony

• Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Parent
  • Circumstances
  • Caring

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

  

  Stephen Covey