Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
-
I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
-
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
-
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
-
I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
-
Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.
-
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
-
I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.
-
I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
-
I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.
-
I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
-
My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
-
We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.
-
The Sichuan disaster is not the first nor the most wrongful. But all the details of this tragedy will be forgotten, and once again it will be like nothing ever happened. Eventually all these disasters will together create a bizarre miracle called civilization and evolution.
-
I don't like my physique at all.
-
The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age.
-
The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.
-
City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.
-
In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at the beginning of 1852, I received the doctorate for a dissertation on the refrain in Provencal poetry.
-
A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.
-
I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.
-
The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!
-
It takes a lot of guts to come out to your friends and family. For most gay people, coming out is the most traumatic experience in their life because of the worry about the backlash: 'What's going to happen? Are my parents going to accept me? Are my friends going to accept me? Are my sisters and brothers going to accept me?'
-
Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.
