Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

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• Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Art
  • True
  • Poetry

• I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Father
  • Man
  • Amazing

• I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • World
  • Way
  • Respect

• I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Heart
  • Hate
  • Pet

• Every girl likes to just rock out when they put music on in their room - I learned that personally when fans would tell us how much they loved to make up their own dances to Cheetah Girls songs.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Girl

• You really can't do a remake. I mean, 'King Kong' needed its turn to be remade. It needed an update. But the 'Bad News Bears,' or 'The Shaggy D.A.,' those are classic movies. I think they did a good job of remaking them, but it's just not the same thing. Nobody can top Tatum O'Neal. It just isn't the same.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Good
  • Job
  • Bad

• My life was pretty rough.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • My Life

• The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • Dance
  • Enemy

• Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Want
  • You
  • Now

• ...girls who had read Wittgenstein as high school baby-sitters were rejected because the school’s quota of abnormally intelligent students had already been filled that year.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • School
  • High
  • Baby

• There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI

• It feels good to be fit and strong.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Good
  • Strong

• I greatly blame Congress, spurred on by its personal hatred of Nixon, for passing legislation in June through August of '73 which embargoed any further U.S. help to South Vietnam.

  

  Alistair Horne
  • Help
  • June
  • August

• Your problems never cease. They just change.

  

  Phil Jackson

• You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Together

• I was one of those people who watched and videotaped the Tonys every year and kept a highlight reel every year. I saw every Broadway show as a kid.

  

  Jane Krakowski
  • People

• When every word is parsed for ill intention, regardless of who is speaking or why, we become so afraid we'll offend that we stop trying to communicate with people we don't understand.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• There are three things that I'm addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I'm addicted to the cheer moment. 'Librarians' has plenty of them. Next, I feel that life is hard, and I want my entertainment fun, and 'Librarians' is fun as a Christmas party. And third, I like to be moved.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Party

• Inside North Korea, we have many informants and spies watching everyone; they're paid by the government. Even a husband and wife can't trust each other.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Wife
  • Trust
  • Husband

• I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult following, and they have some strange personal attachment to them because it's so personal to read a book.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • People
  • Book
  • Bad

• Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Men
  • Hate

• I pack on mass quickly when I lift.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Mass
  • Quickly
  • Lift

• The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.

  

  Eric Johnston
  • Philosophy
  • Conversation
  • Decisions

• Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Church
  • Mean
  • Meetings