Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

Stephen Covey

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• Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • People
  • Deep
  • Acting

• For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Government
  • Years
  • Canada

• I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • School
  • Age
  • Working

• I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Day
  • Joy
  • Thought

• It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Time
  • Software
  • Fair

• The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Thought
  • Would

• 'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Proud
  • Yourself
  • Born

• We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Up
  • World
  • Money

• The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Business
  • Success

• I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • World
  • Man
  • Black

• I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Good
  • Me
  • Sexy

• When you challenge me, I like my chances in a fistfight. On the field, I use the same approach. I'm going to win. And I'll do it by any means necessary. If you're not willing to go that route, don't come my way.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Challenge
  • Win
  • Same

• Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Look
  • Sound
  • Grow

• I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Children
  • Special

• My lord, I have heard that your father was a military man. Was that the case?

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Father
  • Military

• As I continue to develop my relationship with Him, I have discovered that God is a nice guy.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God
  • Guy
  • Relationship

• I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one.

  

  Jimmy Carr

• There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Success
  • Fear
  • Happiness

• This Islam business kidnapped me.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Business
  • Me
  • Islam

• You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Travel
  • Language

• She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • She
  • Rest
  • Years

• Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Success
  • Leadership
  • Commitment