Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
Quotes to Explore
-
More modern poetry is written than read.
-
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
-
My work was entirely nonfiction.
-
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
-
In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
-
We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
-
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
-
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
-
I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
-
I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.
-
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
-
I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
-
Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
-
When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
-
Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
-
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
-
I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.
-
We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
-
I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
-
Every politician just has to remember how he got his position in the first place. A young candidate running for Congress or any outsider interested in public office could only achieve his goals by relying on soft power. They could not force anyone to vote for them. They needed to convince their potential voters, they needed to do fundraising, they needed to be attractive candidates.
-
The world needs your story in order to be complete.
-
To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
