Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
I think that respect for people is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do the right thing.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
-
All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
-
As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
-
When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
-
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
-
I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!
-
Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.
-
Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
-
My life was pretty rough.
-
I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
-
When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.
-
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.
-
And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
-
The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.
-
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
-
My advice on getting a raise is what everybody's advice is: to become a confident negotiator; but that is so hard. My admiration for women who are good at that is unbridled. Women in general have a harder time talking about money with their bosses.
-
If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.
-
If you can't get up in the morning and laugh at yourself, don't get out of bed.
-
We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.
-
My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
-
People keep asking if I believe in ghosts. If you're talking about poltergeists and weird, supernatural phenomena, not really.
-
On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.
-
I think that respect for people is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do the right thing.
