Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

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• All reactionaries are paper tigers.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Paper
  • Tigers

• I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Social
  • Scientist
  • Novelist

• To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Friends
  • Old
  • Comforting

• On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Purpose
  • Stage
  • Emotions

• A house divided against itself cannot stand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Stand
  • Divided

• Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Care
  • Write

• I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Life
  • Work
  • Fun

• Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Change
  • Design
  • Process

• As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Kind
  • Guys
  • Perform

• We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Acting

• How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • You
  • Lost
  • Everything

• If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Truth
  • Design
  • Information

• There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Thing
  • Evidence
  • Only

• I just love math and most people don't.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Love
  • Math

• We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Thought
  • Sound
  • Hip Hop

• I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Peace
  • Soldier

• From the Asia Pacific to Africa to the Americas, the United States and our armed forces will remain the greatest force for freedom and security and peace that the world has ever known. That is your legacy. That is what we have to protect, and that is what we have to defend.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Space

• The enigma I will not explain – its 'dark saying' must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture.

  

  Edward Elgar
  • Dark
  • Connection

• I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • People
  • Black
  • Eye

• Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a business that is going to be video centric and video focused, you want to have scale on the video programming side to be able to take advantage of this.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Want

• But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.

  

  Katie Couric
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• Father, show me how to praise Thee When I seek Thy courts to-day; Guide me by Thy love, and raise me -- Let me feel the words I say. Bless me on this hallowed morning, Bid my soul to Thee draw near; Teach me, and my heart shall listen -- Speak, Lord, and Thy child shall hear.

  

  Sarah Doudney
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Father

• Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Morning
  • Abundance
  • Mentality