Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.

Stephen Covey

• Life
• Joy
• Study
• Sadness
• Empty
• Contrast

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• Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Carefree

• We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Want
  • Continue
  • Differently

• If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • You
  • Charity
  • Improve

• Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Different
  • Technology
  • Environment

• I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Said

• When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Best
  • Actor
  • Go

• I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Sick

• I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • School
  • Gone
  • Journalist

• We're being held to ransom by these pinstripe Scargills...

  

  Vince Cable

• It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Baby

• Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • City

• the United States and Saudi Arabia...have instead used their influence to ensure that members of the old regime remain in power and the status quo is maintained. American counterterrorism agencies and the Saudi government have a firm grip on Yemen at the moment. It is they...that control the country.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Country
  • Power
  • American

• For thus it is, men of Athens, in truth: wherever a man has placed himself thinking it is the best place for him, or has been placed by a commander, there in my opinion he ought to stay and to abide the hazard, taking nothing into the reckoning, either death or anything else, before the baseness of deserting his post.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Truth

• To be perfectly frank, I really do not.

  

  Bruce Lee

• We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Manipulation

• When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.

  

  Joe Murray
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him.

  

  Donatella Versace

• I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• I see so many fools in this world that sometimes I could just go home and cry about what people do to themselves Hey, wake up, wake up, look here! Think a minute, think a minute. This is your life! You got, what, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years here, and you gonna be gone.'

  

  J. California Cooper
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Important
  • Family
  • Friends

• I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don't like speaking in front of people, I don't think I'm bad at it.

  

  Anna D. Shapiro
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Study