Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

Stephen Covey

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• With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Love
  • Questions
  • Tradition

• Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Character
  • Man
  • Moment

• God hears a mother's prayer.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • God
  • Mother
  • Prayer

• The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • World
  • Different
  • Me

• In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Age
  • Earth

• My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Women
  • Choices
  • Judge

• I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • Day
  • Best

• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Tree
  • Down

• But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Loved
  • Clothes
  • Looking

• Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Die
  • Will
  • Without

• The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Death

• I'm tired of being considered property.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Tired
  • Being
  • Property

• The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

  

  Orlando Gibbons
  • Death
  • Silent
  • Silver

• I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Different
  • Accept

• An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Time
  • Important
  • Future

• You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • You
  • Trust
  • Discover

• Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up the reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Up
  • Music
  • Culture

• People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Nice

• Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Emotional

• Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Honesty
  • Ends
  • Memorable

• I have had to answer questions like, 'But you don't look like lead material.' Now, I still don't know what 'lead material' looks like because everyone has eyes, a nose, and a face.

  

  Swara Bhaskar
  • Eyes
  • Questions
  • Lead Material

• When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Important
  • King
  • Inspired

• I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • Up
  • Wall
  • Army

• Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Honesty
  • Questions
  • Awareness