Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

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• Being a club pro and all, a guy trying to keep up with golf's modern technology, I hadn't found much time for Internet dating, but then one day I knew I'd met the girl of my dreams when she replied to a comment I'd made on You-and-Me.com. She said, 'I love it when you talk equipment to me.'

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Record
  • Often
  • Killer

• If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Funny
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  • Day

• I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • True
  • Think
  • Democracy

• Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Gay

• I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Said

• If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Dog
  • Pet
  • Sweater

• It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Job
  • Friends

• I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

  

  Barry White
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

  

  Gary Lucas
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • Character
  • Man

• Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Children
  • Week
  • Lunch

• You think I don't want to? It's those TV networks, Marge: they won't let me. One quality show after another, each one fresher and more brilliant than the last. If they only stumbled once, just gave us thirty minutes to ourselves, but they won't! They won't let me live!

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Live
  • Think
  • Quality

• My goodness, why is this woman [ Hillary Clinton ] at 46%? She's like the magic 46. She's 46% in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, she's 46% in a lot of these swing states.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Why
  • She
  • Magic

• What we demand is integrity and honesty of the research that is rendered.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Integrity
  • Honesty
  • Research

• Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Think
  • Hope
  • Player

• I love writing about unknown people.

  

  Miranda Seymour
  • People
  • Writing
  • Unknown

• For me, philanthropic return on investment is about making the biggest impact possible on fellow human beings, regardless of country, race or religion.

  

  Bobby Sager
  • Religion
  • Human Beings
  • Investment

• If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Ideas
  • Wise
  • Investment

• My work is really the accumulation of these different moods that I've had throughout my life and where they've taken me. I start looking back, and I think, I've actually created a life out of all this, out of these changes of mood. They've pushed me through all these years, and I seem to have a semblance of a life, and if I look very carefully, I can see some thematic design to it. There's some continuity.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Taken
  • Design

• Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Patient
  • Investment