Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.

Stephen Covey

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• We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Sports
  • Easy
  • Rights

• I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Real
  • Fear
  • Know

• A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Single
  • Integrity
  • Lie

• It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Up
  • Opinion
  • Creative

• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Live
  • Places

• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Think
  • Popular
  • Rap

• All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Water
  • Air

• If people believe in your material, they will do whatever it takes to get it done. Even if they don't, but you make it as awesome an experience as possible, they will help you reach your goals.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • People
  • Believe
  • Done

• My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.

  

  Jessica Anne Newham
  • Music
  • Song
  • Single

• Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our hands dirty, face it, and see why and how it was.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women
  • Why
  • History

• You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.

  

  Atom Egoyan

• I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.

  

  Emo Philips
  • Up
  • Children

• I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • Book
  • Future
  • Interesting

• What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Good
  • Curiosity

• There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Thinking
  • Optimistic

• It's important for the Fed, hard as it is, to attempt to detect asset bubbles while they're forming.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Important
  • Bubbles

• It's not my concern to make a commercial pop record. I want to make a record of music that I would listen to, that is lyrically rich and has songs that people can relate to - more along the Jakob Dylan route: people who create for the art of it and not necessarily the monetary rewards of it.

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

  

  Phillip Noyce
  • People
  • Fence

• Do not search for SUCCESS off in the distance, but instead recognize it and grasp it right where you are!

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Search
  • Distance

• Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Writing
  • Powerful
  • Clarity