Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.

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• I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Writers

• 'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Best

• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Life
  • Real
  • May

• Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Different
  • Clear
  • Voting

• Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Gold
  • Most
  • Even

• I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Good
  • God
  • Future

• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Light
  • Brain

• When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Character
  • Destiny

• I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Want
  • Wife
  • Car

• No country in the world is going to recognize that Ariel and Maaleh Adumim and Beit El are a sovereign part of Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Country
  • Israel

• I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • School
  • Loved
  • Classmates

• I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Past
  • Democracy

• I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • People
  • Life
  • Like

• I always feel I'm blessed, you know. I thank God for letting me use his voice. That's how I see it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • God
  • Blessed
  • Thank God

• No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.

  

  Veronica Cartwright
  • People
  • Game
  • Lucky

• Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'

  

  Art Buchwald
  • Women
  • Heart
  • Taken

• Black Lives Matter is our call to action. It is a tool to reimagine a world where black people are free to exist, free to live. It is a tool for our allies to show up differently for us.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm a little disappointed in myself because before getting pregnant, I resolved to do all these things during my pregnancy to nurse a healthy pregnancy. And so I'm finding in these final weeks that I didn't do any of them.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Pregnancy
  • Nurse

• Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

  

  Bob Kerrey
  • Baseball

• If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Man
  • Better

• We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Life
  • Trying

• Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Together