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

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• Integrity
• Function
• Capacity
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• Enjoyment

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

  

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

  

  Sam Donaldson
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• Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Environment
  • Hollywood
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• 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
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• Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.

  

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

  

  Lara Stone
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  • 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
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• 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
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• 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

• Music fathoms the sky.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Music
  • Sky

• 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
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  • 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

• I also found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces.

  

  Jacques Lipchitz
  • Time
  • Great
  • Art

• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Business
  • Character

• The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • World
  • Disability

• What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Singing

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

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Character
  • Integrity
  • Function