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.

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• 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!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• 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!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Die
  • Universe
  • Body

• As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Life
  • Want
  • Journal

• 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.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • Character
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Man

• I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Up
  • America
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Mind
  • Energy
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Time
  • She
  • Sweet

• My life was pretty rough.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Kind

• When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Book
  • Inspiration
  • Election

• 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

• And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).

  

  Larry Wall
  • Purpose
  • Silly

• The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Different
  • Women

• I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

  

  Leo Durocher
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

  

  Ari Fleischer
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Light

• If you can't get up in the morning and laugh at yourself, don't get out of bed.

  

  Chris Collins
  • Up
  • Morning

• Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Know
  • Dogs
  • Bark

• It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution to the fabric of American life. But...under the pressures we face today, we can't afford to lose control of our borders, or to take on new financial burdens, at a time when we are not adequately providing for the jobs, the health care, and the education of our own people. Therefore, immigration must be a priority for this administration.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Jobs
  • Health care
  • Immigrants

• As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man

  

  Marquis de Condorcet
  • Great
  • Men
  • Mind

• Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Something
  • Despair

• 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.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mean
  • Profound
  • Caring