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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• On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Long
  • Children
  • Home

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

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Trump

• I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Great
  • Live
  • Listening

• 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

• I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Never
  • Keep
  • Conversations

• There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Hope

• 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

• Viewed up close, nobody is normal.

  

  Caetano Veloso
  • Up
  • Normal

• Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.

  

  Brian Chippendale
  • Words
  • Sound

• The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

  

  William Ames
  • May
  • Creation
  • Understood

• I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the center - I'm a marginalized person politically - but because the center is where things get done.

  

  Richard Grossman
  • Democracy
  • Persons
  • Marginalized

• I knelt by the design. Yes, there was the sun rising. But the white form I had always thought to be a cloud was a bear. I could see it now, upside down. White bear, isbjorn, stood for north. Father had not been able to help himself. The truth was there, too. Truth and lie, side by side.

  

  Edith Pattou
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Design

• 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