Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.

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• By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • You
  • Vote
  • Citizen

• A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Why
  • Pretty

• I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

  

  Barry White
  • Looking
  • Babies
  • Trip

• When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Great
  • Death
  • Survival

• The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Music
  • American
  • Parents

• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Rock

• I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • School
  • High
  • Acting

• Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Name

• My family is basically Gypsies - for real.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Real
  • Family
  • Basically

• I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Sea
  • Resort
  • Skyscrapers

• A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Money
  • Business
  • Today

• People think about Bitcoin incorrectly. They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, speculation, about how much money do you make. When really, what it is is an API for programmable cash transactions.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Money
  • Gold

• At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Believe
  • School

• Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women

• I am still making my living reciting my verses for crowds who refuse to buy my books. I must do this, as all American rhymers must, however sick I may be of the sound of my own voice.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • May
  • American
  • Sick

• I don't think I've ever done a real mini-series, but I love doing film first and foremost.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Real
  • Done

• I think in general, people are baffled by love and what it does to them and how far they'll go to have love and be loved.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • People

• If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.

  

  Jeff Shaara
  • Time

• The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear. (p. 18)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • History
  • King

• I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Great
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'

  

  Billy West
  • People
  • Forever

• At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Believe