Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

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• I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

  

  Ed Asner
  • God
  • Believe
  • Myself

• People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • People
  • Want
  • More

• The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Money
  • You
  • Find

• Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Person
  • Face
  • Greatest

• I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Music
  • Couple
  • Doing

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Science
  • Attention

• I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • People
  • True
  • Door

• It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • People
  • Evil

• I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Fear

• 'The X-Files' was a hard sell because people didn't know what it was. The network didn't understand what it was that they were buying, and at the beginning, they wanted us to have closure. They wanted us to put the cuffs on the bad guy at the end of each episode.

  

  Chris Carter
  • People
  • Bad
  • Guy

• I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.

  

  Leelee Sobieski
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.

  

  Azita Ghanizada
  • Great
  • Family
  • Culture

• It’s a troublesome world. All the people who're in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot, For the places and people you're lucky you're not!

  

  Dr. Seuss
  • People
  • World
  • Thankful

• Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Wit
  • Ass
  • Badass

• If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him & He will make use of you every minute you live- yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your life, that you are being used of Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• I find that a lot of times when family members get bronchitis or the flu or something like that, I'll kind of skate through and be really lucky and not get that sick.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Family
  • Sick

• What's interesting, I think, is that a lot of times, women in powerful positions, when they do get critiqued, when they do get criticized, it often revolves around their appearance, their sexuality, their fertility, et cetera.

  

  Anna Holmes
  • Women
  • Powerful
  • Criticized

• The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you're just finding your feet.

  

  Jimmy Carr

• I took some time off to enjoy my life, but figure skating is something I love and something I will continue doing for the rest of my life.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Life
  • Time
  • Rest

• I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective a bit.

  

  Dave Smalley
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Faith

• Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all over the world and no translator is required. Photography is truly a universal language, transcending all boundaries of race, politics and nationality.

  

  Arthur Rothstein
  • Language
  • Photography
  • Translator

• As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Care
  • Perspective