Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Stephen Covey

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• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Look
  • Hide
  • Eighteen

• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Great
  • Broken

• I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Listening
  • View

• I never felt like I had a mother.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Never

• If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Work
  • Together
  • Day

• Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Thinking
  • Negative
  • Negativity

• For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • People
  • Great
  • Thought

• I've used my time at 'GH' to learn some discipline.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Discipline

• Using leverage to cure the problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it is denial. The debt crisis is not a temporary problem, it is a structural one. We need rehab.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• With all respect, why do you give crap countries a vote?

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Why
  • Respect

• I was at the job of reading it for days and days, endlessly daunted and halted by its laborious dullness, its flatulent fatuity, its almost fabulous inconsequentiality. (On H. G. Wells' Joan and Peter) Ch. 2, 'The Late Mr. Wells'

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Job
  • Reading

• Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Knowledge

• A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business - live concerts.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Live
  • Business

• This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• When you're involved in those big-budget movies, there's a lot of hype: 'Oh this is gonna be a big hit!' And 'A Christmas Story' wasn't. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Christmas
  • Disappointment

• I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

  

  Weird Al Yankovic
  • Long
  • History
  • Wishes

• The distinction, between what is done by labour, and what is done by nature, is not always observed.

  

  James Mill
  • Done
  • Nature

• I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way similar to the human brain. That is the goal I have been pursuing. We are making progress, though we still have lots to learn about how the brain actually works.

  

  Geoffrey Hinton
  • Work
  • Brain
  • Progress

• Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.

  

  Barbara Fredrickson
  • Picture
  • Perspective
  • Problems

• I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • World
  • Real
  • Field

• We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • World
  • Looks
  • Perception