Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.

Stephen Covey

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• My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Trump

• It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it's a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Si eres bueno con éste, con aquél dirán que eres bueno. Si eres bueno con todos, nadie dirá que eres bueno.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.

  

  Lorde
  • Musicians
  • Nobody
  • Females

• Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Rock
  • Rocks
  • Rock And Roll

• The real work is in the Heart:

  

  Rabia Basri
  • Work
  • Real
  • Heart

• Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Society
  • Confidence
  • Personality

• O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Up
  • God
  • Truth

• Use testimonial letters from satisfied customers at every opportunity.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Opportunity
  • Satisfied
  • Letters

• Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Reality

• And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Star
  • Sea
  • Green

• Even miracles take a little time.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Time
  • Take
  • Miracles

• Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movie

• No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Truth

• He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Freedom
  • Justice
  • Care

• Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.

  

  David Deida
  • Lying
  • Dissatisfaction
  • Living A Lie

• ... a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.

  

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  • Creation
  • Monster
  • Monsters

• If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Effectiveness

• That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Country
  • Death
  • Song

• The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Ideas
  • Acting
  • Persons

• I think young people are recognizing the power of institutions, and we have to really dismantle a lot of the stigma and shame, culturally, but we also have to change things in terms of how government and institutions deal with this.

  

  Cecile Richards
  • Government
  • Term
  • Shame

• When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Learn
  • Electricity
  • Store

• While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Persons
  • Term
  • Principles