Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.

Stephen Covey

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• Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Live
  • May
  • Age

• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Find
  • Difficult

• I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Friends
  • Loved
  • Personal

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.

  

  Barney Ross
  • People
  • Me
  • Lucky

• Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Taste
  • Personal
  • Niche

• I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Night
  • Quiet
  • Busy

• Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Love
  • Heaven
  • Guitar

• My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• 'It is no hardship whatever,' said Aillas. 'You have never strained at the deed. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and suddenly you find the idea incredible. Do you not sense a taint of unreality?'

  

  Jack Vance

• I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.

  

  Aminatta Forna

• In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

  

  Don McLean
  • American
  • Song

• The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.

  

  Benny Green
  • May
  • Environment
  • Magic

• I can't sing or dance.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Dance

• People who truly love to sing have to do it all the time.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • People
  • Time

• In general, insurers say criticisms of claims-handling are unfair because most policyholders are paid promptly, and some denials are necessary to root out fraud.

  

  Charles Duhigg

• I always wanted to sing, as a child.

  

  Luke Evans

• Look at all of the pitchers getting six- and seven-year deals at 30, 31, and 32. You see what's going on and the money that's out there. You'd be a fool not to try to benefit from that, or at least try to get what you feel you're worth.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Money
  • Fool

• In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

  

  Alfred Marshall

• Driver has always been fine, and the rest of the clubs have been fine. It's just for some reason, the 3-wood... that's just one of those clubs.

  

  Jason Day
  • Rest

• Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. - This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.

  

  Frederick the Great
  • God
  • Universe

• Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

  

  Judith Butler
  • History
  • Love Is
  • Ghosts

• Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Heart
  • Relationship
  • Pain