Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

Stephen Covey

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• We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

  

  Lisa Scottoline
  • Trying
  • Truth

• When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Hand
  • Husband
  • Helping

• The new Beetle cannot deny its origin and the magic of its shape, ... We believe the new Beetle is not just another car.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • Believe
  • Car
  • Magic

• We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

  

  Quintilian
  • Writing
  • Impossible
  • Simplicity

• The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Money
  • Business

• I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day....

  

  Robert Frost
  • House
  • Fly
  • Bird

• My dream is that all South Africans from all walks of life will have the opportunity to read my books and use the information therein to successfully invest in property.

  

  Jason Lee
  • Dream
  • Opportunity
  • Information

• Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.

  

  Burgess Meredith
  • Wine
  • Veins

• If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Universe
  • Silent
  • Searching

• I wanted to use an urban setting with a small-town feel for a story that took a character through her childhood into her adulthood, with a background in arson investigation, ... I chose Baltimore and its delightful Little Italy section and was able to depict that neighborhood feel, the family ties, and I hope a good story about why choices made define who we are and who we become.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Story
  • Urban
  • Small Town

• What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Question
  • Solved

• Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Feels
  • Medicine

• When you find your reason for living, hold onto it. Never let it go. Even if it means burning other bridges along the way.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Reason
  • Living
  • Means

• Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.

  

  George Washington
  • Passion
  • Reason
  • Envy

• I don't know why, but there's a certain element of panic in writing lyrics that I'm not sure I enjoy. I don't write lyrics first, ever. I've never done that. So, in a sense, the lyrics are a bit of an afterthought - it's music first.

  

  Mike Patton Faith No More
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Panic

• Most people go through life thinking that tomorrow they’re going to do something great. Tomorrow will be the day that they wake up and discover what they were put on this earth to do. But then tomorrow comes—and goes. As does the next day. Before long, they realize that there aren’t that many tomorrows left.

  

  Nick Bilton
  • Tomorrow
  • Discover
  • Left

• In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Beginning
  • News
  • Lie

• Every time I exercise, I do something different based on which areas need to get in motion.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Different
  • Needs
  • Exercise

• Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.

  

  Gene Kranz
  • Safety
  • Changed
  • Program

• The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Truth

• I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Areas
  • Neglect
  • Chairs