Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Passion is the fire, enthusiasm and courage that an individual feels when she is doing something she loves while accomplishing worthy ends, something that satisfies her deepest needs.

Stephen Covey

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• I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Career
  • Past
  • Amazing

• A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Truth
  • Win
  • Lawyer

• Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Money
  • Education
  • College

• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Never
  • Just

• I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Good
  • Work
  • Passion

• People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Long
  • Memory
  • Apple

• The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Never
  • Type
  • Handsome

• I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Work
  • Done
  • End

• I wasn't scouted in the mall as a kid; it just kinda happened naturally 'cause of Instagram and New York and being visible, which is cool. Things just started rolling in. Timing was in my favour 'cause the Internet acted as a catalyst for the fashion industry to change and be more open 'cause people demanded it.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Change
  • Fashion

• And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Want
  • Things
  • Leave

• Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Time
  • Good
  • Hand

• The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Quality
  • Literature
  • Start

• Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

  

  Charles Dickens

• There is a method to the madness when it comes to placing everything in your refrigerator.

  

  Khloe Kardashian

• I hired a publicist once I got cast in 'Passing Strange,' and one of the first conversations we had was about how I wanted to handle talking about my sexuality. I said, 'It's never been an issue for me. I want to talk about my work, but if something about myself relates to my work, of course I'll talk about it.'

  

  Colman Domingo
  • Work

• 'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Christmas

• People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.

  

  Gayle King
  • People
  • Work
  • Fly

• I love dishes and house things so I kind of lost it a little bit on the house ware. One-thousand thread-count sheets, that's what I indulged in.

  

  Toni Braxton
  • House
  • Lost

• It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's something I need to work on and control. But still there's nothing like a buffet.

  

  Donna Dixon
  • Work
  • Control

• A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Spiritual
  • Criticism

• Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Irish
  • Mexico
  • Trains

• Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

  

  George Will
  • Program
  • Skepticism

• Passion is the fire, enthusiasm and courage that an individual feels when she is doing something she loves while accomplishing worthy ends, something that satisfies her deepest needs.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Passion
  • Individual
  • Enthusiasm