Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

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• I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it's very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates - much lower than their competitors.

  

  Najib Razak
  • High
  • Think
  • Technology

• The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Power
  • Political

• I think he likes it. He fits in with our ethos. He's a good worker and is an excellent pro. Thank goodness he likes his training or else he wouldn't settle here.

  

  Iain Dowie
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Training

• The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger.

  

  Uwe Reinhardt
  • Rich
  • Poor

• Where is [Ariel] Sharon who, planning to be one of the big heroes of Israel, became one of the killers, criminals, killing our small kids in Sabra and Chatila. Where is Alexander Haig?

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Kids
  • Small
  • Planning

• I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Death

• I've sought a constructive relationship with Russia, but what I have also been is realistic in recognizing that there is some significant differences in how Russia views the world and how we view the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Relationship

• The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • People
  • Thoughts
  • Camera

• When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Talk

• We will revive the emergency employment program established by former President Corazon Aquino. This will provide jobs for local communities and will help in the development of their and our economy.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • Help
  • Economy
  • Communities

• I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our rice in India, with either vegetables or meat or whatever.) Before you know it, every common use of plants will be patented by a Western corporation.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Taken

• Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Work
  • Men
  • Nature

• I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • World
  • Live
  • May

• When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • May
  • Present
  • Marriage

• The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Faith

• If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.

  

  Michel Onfray
  • Philosophy
  • Patient
  • Hospitals

• This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Business
  • Numbers
  • Investing

• Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Technology
  • Investing

• I feel basically good about my career because it's remained constant. What I do has never been especially in vogue or gotten high on the charts. At the same time, I haven't had to stop performing any of my music because it aged in style.

  

  John Prine
  • Time
  • Music
  • Career

• The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Keys
  • Investing