Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.

Stephen Covey

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• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Guy
  • White
  • Next

• A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Culture
  • Enough
  • Resistance

• A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.

  

  Washed Out
  • Couple
  • Doing
  • First

• You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Done
  • Day
  • Better

• In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Look
  • Looking

• I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Golf

• I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Music
  • Long
  • Job

• Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Challenge

• Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

  

  Halsey
  • Desperate
  • Bisexual
  • Bipolar

• It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Small
  • Limit
  • Surveillance

• Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Stronger
  • Minimum Wage

• If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heaven

• I don't give a damn what anybody says. I don't think at 70 and 75 that you can be as productive and efficient as you were when you were 40 or 50.

  

  Ara Parseghian

• I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Up
  • Growing

• The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

  Charles B. Rangel

• We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we're moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • World
  • High

• When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Experience
  • History
  • Culture

• Winning is never enough, and I've got to try and do it as much as I can before my time is over.

  

  Jason Day
  • Time
  • Winning

• Half the oxygen we breathe emanates from microscopic phytoplankton sloshing around the surface of the ocean. After literally billions of years of performing that essential, priceless service, those vital organisms now must swim and feed and survive in a sea of plastic soup. Figuring out what’s up with those organisms is, Goldstein suggests, a pretty vital matter. If we are inadvertently killing them off, the result could be far less visible, but even more devastating, than deforestation.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Ocean
  • Survive
  • Killing

• I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Believe
  • History
  • Space

• And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • People
  • Important
  • American

• Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike.

  

  David Augsburger
  • Free
  • Value
  • Practice

• If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Commitment
  • Wells
  • Meaningless