Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

It's better to be trusted than to be liked.

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• I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Business
  • Years
  • Early

• I never planned on being an actress or Wonder Woman, but everything just happened, and I am grateful and happy and in love with what I do.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Wonder

• If I wasn't a pro-athlete, I would probably eat any dessert dish every day!

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Athlete

• I believe that in fact it would be economically reasonable and logical to reach a compromise [on oil production], I am sure that everybody understands this.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Believe
  • Facts
  • Compromise

• Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.

  

  William Shatner
  • Men
  • Jobs
  • Doe

• It's been a good ride. Queen is the train that never stops, I think.

  

  Roger Taylor Queen
  • Musicians
  • Queen
  • Ride

• One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe, loud enough for all of us to hear (she'd had a minibottle or two herself), "I bet he did really well on his SATs.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Moments
  • Serious

• A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

  

  George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
  • Woman
  • Cunning

• When You're young, you get sad, and you get high.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • High
  • Young

• You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Purpose
  • Enemy
  • Cutting

• Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

  

  Simon Wiesenthal
  • Decision
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgetting

• I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Women
  • Consider
  • Monsters

• My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Observation

• Messi is always compared to Maradona, but he needs to win the World Cup because if you don't win the World Cup, you can't be up there with the very best.

  

  Andrea Pirlo
  • Best
  • Win
  • World Cup

• It's better to be trusted than to be liked.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Trusted