Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.Stephen Covey
Quotes to Explore
-
Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
Waylon Jennings -
I never allow myself to be pressured.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
Action Bronson -
When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
Ian Mckellen -
I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
Manny Pacquiao -
When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
Haile Gebrselassie
-
My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
Kangana Ranaut -
When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convinced it was all going to come crashing down.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I just don't stop working.
Kat Graham -
In a knot of eight crossings, which is about the average-size knot, there are 256 different 'over-and-under' arrangements possible... Make only one change in this 'over and under' sequence and either an entirely different knot is made or no knot at all may result.
Annie Proulx -
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Elie Wiesel -
I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.
Clare Balding
-
I probably wore out my VHS copy of 'Office Space.'
Kim Shaw -
One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.
Alan Rickman -
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
Alexander Haig -
It's a scene in Boston Harbor. It's in the Yellow Sitting Room on the second floor. And he always teased me about not having my name on it.
Lew Wasserman -
The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.
Saint Augustine
-
China needs a table-tennis-like solidity in football.
Berti Vogts -
See driving is like stabbing someone, it's very personal. While flying is like shooting someone, it's more distant.
Bushwick Bill -
When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.
J. Frank Dobie -
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.
Stephen Covey