Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.

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• My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Couple
  • Thing
  • Roles

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Different
  • Comedy
  • Person

• I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

  

  Barry McGee
  • School
  • Art
  • Kids

• Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Husband

• In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Job
  • America
  • First

• As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Good
  • Children
  • Bad

• From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Great
  • Mistake
  • View

• If people believe in your material, they will do whatever it takes to get it done. Even if they don't, but you make it as awesome an experience as possible, they will help you reach your goals.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • People
  • Believe
  • Done

• Using leverage to cure the problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it is denial. The debt crisis is not a temporary problem, it is a structural one. We need rehab.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• His best companions, innocence and health;And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Health
  • Ignorance

• I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Good
  • Music
  • Clever

• In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, or even each sentence or paragraph. For me, stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times.

  

  David A. Adler
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Worry

• You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful... that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Life
  • Rest

• Great dangers give birth to great resolutions.

  

  Auguste Escoffier
  • Great

• Obviously, the hit singles get the biggest reaction - that's when you can see people really getting excited.

  

  Kathy Valentine
  • People

• I want to be a dad. That's floating to the top of my list. I think it's such an important thing. I'm at the age where everyone has kids, and I ask them, 'Is it like a puppy?' And they go, 'It's 10 times a puppy.'

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Age

• As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'

  

  Jefferson Han
  • Powerful

• You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Deep
  • Racism

• Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Powerful
  • Speed
  • Cost