Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

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• At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Earth
  • Food
  • Environment

• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Evil
  • Explain
  • Abhorrent

• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can really hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Rock

• Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sports
  • Involved
  • Activities

• Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Done
  • Art
  • Want

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Know
  • Kindness
  • Late

• Nothing in my songs is disrespective.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
  • Songs
  • Nothing

• I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • School
  • Done

• A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Thoughts

• She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Age
  • Young
  • Hard

• Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • World
  • Power
  • Change

• Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • Party
  • System

• It was thinking about Casagemas's death that started me painting in blue.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Painting

• I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Hate
  • Sex

• The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• My guitar, it was new when I got it, but it has a hole like Willie's where it's just worn out from my pinky going back and forth over the wood over all these years. I got Willie Nelson to sign that spot on my guitar. I'm a huge fan of him.

  

  Dierks Bentley

• I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Long
  • Ideas
  • Transformation

• Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wisdom
  • Compassion
  • Sincerity

• I'm ready for all forms of dialogue about the film The Conquest. There will be a lot of political talk, but I don't think the film itself will be scandalous. For the French, there are so many emotions relating to Sarkozy and politicians in general that I think the film will generate a lot of passion, whether it be negative or positive. Above all, it's a fictional film. It was important not to make a documentary and to really pay attention to the images. From the choice of the actors to the mise en scene, the film is completely cinematographic. It's not just a boring political movie.

  

  Xavier Durringer
  • Passion
  • Film
  • Emotions

• It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

  

  Stephen Covey
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