Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

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• I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Writing
  • Author
  • Living

• When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Right
  • Him
  • Bully

• 'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • Father
  • Morning

• He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Long
  • Sports
  • Win

• I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Moon
  • Tomorrow

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Society
  • Worth
  • Tax

• I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Taken
  • Make
  • Sure

• I am very shy with people I don't know.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Shy

• I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Life
  • Help
  • Decision

• The settlers do not have a problem with the leftists but, rather, with Israelis who like settlers: Israelis who are unconcerned by the fact that national-religious youngsters are overtaking our elite units. Such Israelis actually appreciate the settlers for that.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Like
  • Religious

• The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.

  

  James Packer
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Job

• I just have to move forward and keep working on my game and getting better.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Game

• I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg
  • Work
  • Fall
  • Sleep

• I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Up
  • Why
  • Balance

• Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • Growth
  • Meaningful

• I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.

  

  Janis Ian
  • God
  • Career

• I started out with machine code and assembly language.

  

  Charles Petzold

• Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Flower

• In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Dream
  • Respect
  • Measure

• The world has become more diversified, with women becoming a real power of change.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • World
  • Real
  • Becoming

• For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Awake
  • One
  • Cosmos

• No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.

  

  Sophocles
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Evil

• You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mistake
  • Busy