Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.

Stephen Covey

• Character
• Integrity
• Function
• Capacity
• Analysis
• Enjoyment

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• I want to continue to be me and share with people.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Environment
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Country
  • American
  • Law

• It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?

  

  Lara Stone
  • Nice
  • Color
  • Lips

• I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Work
  • Job
  • Selfish

• I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Brain

• Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Me
  • Never
  • Him

• When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World

• Here is the bread of time to come, Here is its actual stone. The bread Will be our bread, the stone will be Our bed and we shall sleep by night. We shall forget by day, except The moments when we choose to play The imagined pine, the imagined jay.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Night
  • Moments

• In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.

  

  James Wolk
  • Life
  • Up
  • Guy

• It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Value

• I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.

  

  Debbie Gibson
  • People
  • Life

• I am absolutely convinced there should be financial and political incentives for states to declare. You shouldn't be the pariah of the world if you say you have Ebola, but in reality this is what happens.

  

  Joanne Liu
  • World
  • Political
  • Reality

• I'm very insecure.

  

  Christina Ricci

• As a child in South Carolina, I spent summers like so many children - sitting on my grandparents' back porch with my siblings, spitting watermelon seeds into the garden or, even worse, swallowing them and trembling as my older brother and sister spoke of the vine that was probably already growing in my belly.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Children
  • Growing
  • Brother

• Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.

  

  Elizabeth Dole
  • Why
  • War
  • Free

• Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.

  

  Elizabeth Arden

• What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Character
  • Development
  • Daily Life

• Being insecure – I'm a master, a virtuoso – they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Hope
  • Master
  • Key

• I play golf, but sometimes it's so un-relaxing, I have to play tennis to wind down. Now that I think about it, this process is sort of like when I go out for sushi and have to get a slice of pizza afterward.

  

  Adam Ross
  • Wind
  • Golf
  • Tennis

• I love [Kim Kardashian] nude selfies. Like, I love the ones from the side, the back ones, and the front. I just love seeing her naked.

  

  Kanye West
  • Sides
  • Naked
  • Kim

• Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.

  

  Harry Vardon
  • Partner
  • Function
  • Performing

• Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Character
  • Integrity
  • Function