Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How do you maintain that serenity and peace?" He replied, "I never leave my place of meditation." He meditated early in the morning and for the rest of the day, he carried the peace of those moments with him in his mind and heart.

Stephen Covey

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• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Practice
  • See
  • Down

• The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • World
  • Language
  • Natural

• I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Best
  • Always

• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Home
  • Small

• Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

  

  J. Lee Thompson
  • Political
  • Best
  • Movies

• The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Environment
  • Something

• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Child

• My priority is the script. Get me a good script, and I will sign the movie. I think I should leave the casting up to the experts!

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Family
  • Father
  • Door

• Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Political
  • Voice

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• Being called Gary. It's a crap name. I wish I'd been called by my middle name, Winston.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Wish
  • Name
  • I Wish

• I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Think
  • Way
  • President

• Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Heart
  • Death

• If people see that I'm fully committed to my chosen charities and fully engaged in their issues, maybe they'll click a link to find out more.

  

  David Harewood
  • People

• One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.

  

  Bob Mayer
  • Different
  • Business
  • Book

• I throw 14 parties a week.

  

  Danny Meyer

• 'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • People
  • World

• One of the big struggles for an actor is sometimes you have to take work that you don't necessarily want to do so you can pay rent.

  

  James Marsden
  • Work

• The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.

  

  Chris Riddell

• When it comes right down to it, no, we're not religious at all.

  

  Johnny Christ
  • Religious

• We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work is not to get people to join a church, to give up their bad habits, or to do anything other than to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I'd drop whatever I was doing to show up to do the graveyard shift of 'America's Shopping Place.'

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Up
  • America
  • Shopping

• Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How do you maintain that serenity and peace?" He replied, "I never leave my place of meditation." He meditated early in the morning and for the rest of the day, he carried the peace of those moments with him in his mind and heart.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Morning