Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Stephen Covey

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• Desire
• Happiness
• Sacrifice
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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Society
  • Control

• At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Award

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Ideas
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• I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Book
  • Library

• Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Control
  • Leadership

• One shouldn't know the future.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Future
  • Know

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Band
  • Strength

• I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Freedom
  • Creative
  • Someone

• I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Fight

• There is no such thing as being too independent.

  

  Victoria Billings
  • Independent
  • Being
  • Too

• What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Goes

• Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Germany
  • Coming
  • Invest

• I enjoy the burger joint the same way I enjoy fancy meals.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Enjoy
  • Same
  • Burger

• I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.

  

  Irving Paul Lazar
  • Man
  • Proud
  • Religious

• I believe that there will be women astronauts sometime just as there are women airplane pilots.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Airplane

• I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • School
  • High
  • Sports

• I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. That's just the sort of dedicated writer I am.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Sacrifice

• I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

  

  Eric Idle
  • Life
  • Family
  • Home

• I do believe that sci-fi or historical fiction finds an easy home in comics because there are no budget constraints in regards to the necessary world-building or visual effects necessary to bring those stories to life in other mediums.

  

  Jonathan Hickman
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • World
  • Power
  • War

• Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Happy
  • Desire
  • Happiness