Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'

Stephen Covey

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• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Him
  • Near
  • Unto

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

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Writers

• I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Think
  • Vanity

• 'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Up
  • Together
  • Perfect

• It's funny because everyone says, 'Oh you're reclusive; you don't do social media,' but it's not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that's purposeful.

  

  Banks
  • Funny
  • Social Media
  • Contact

• I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

  

  Kaskade
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Stop

• My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• I feel like with 'Chuck,' because it was a comedy-based show, it was more cartoon-ish. It was just more playful. We had a lot more fun with it. There was a lot of silliness in there. There were serious moments, as well, and there was a lot of heart in that show, but its baseline was comedy.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Comedy

• I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Church
  • Eating
  • Quit

• When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Work
  • Want
  • You

• I know that you can only keep a secret a secret for so long.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Long
  • You
  • Know

• I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Character
  • Think
  • Want

• Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • Party
  • System

• Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Fear

• Being open to what's happening in front of you is the most important thing about being a director. To allow the magic to exist and to be light enough on your feet to harness it as it's happening. That's what makes cinema interesting.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Important
  • Interesting
  • Light

• What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.

  

  Jamie Bell
  • Work
  • Cool
  • Weird

• I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Up
  • Live
  • Friends

• If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Explain

• When I understand this liability as a trade-off for my strengths, something new and liberating arises within me. I no longer want to have my liability 'fixed'-by learning how to dance solo, for example, when no one wants to dance with me-for to do that would be to compromise or even destroy my gift.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Learning
  • Dance

• Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Remember
  • History

• For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Important
  • Together
  • Laugh

• The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Knowledge
  • Learning
  • Progress