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
  • Science

• 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

• I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking.

  

  Jon Bernthal
  • Boxing
  • Nervous
  • Filmmaking

• If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly that civilized mankind finds itself at present in grave danger. In the totalitarian states it is the rulers themselves who strive actually to destroy that spirit of humanity. In less threatened parts it is nationalism and intolerance, as well as the oppression of the individuals by economic means, which threaten to choke these most precious traditions.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Spirit
  • Principles

• I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building.

  

  Chris Albrecht
  • World
  • Drama
  • Unique

• Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Peace
  • Deep
  • Happiness

• 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