Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.

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• We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Fun
  • Spiritual
  • Around

• I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Fans

• A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Focus

• I think sometimes celebrities can hurt a candidate. You don't want people to judge them on your last project.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Want
  • Hurt

• At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Attention

• After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Pain
  • Influence

• He's our catalyst, he means everything to this team. I think there's not a man in here that doesn't realize that Johnny kind of makes us go. He's very, very important to us. I know he's a tough player and he'll be back out on the field for us soon.

  

  Gabe Kapler
  • Team
  • Means
  • Catalyst

• He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Friends
  • Fear
  • Friendship

• The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Knows

• After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Recognize
  • Old Man
  • Weary

• Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hope
  • Sex
  • Alliance

• So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ." Yes, that is so," said the fox. But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. Yes, that is so," said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!" It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Color
  • Fault
  • Wished

• Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Replied
  • Reeling
  • Abmition

• Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion but I would argue that it is the only way to achieve true goodness.

  

  David G. McAfee
  • Believe
  • Achieve
  • Standards

• There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Character
  • Doubt
  • Understood

• Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.

  

  Ava Gardner
  • Makeup
  • Director
  • Understood

• Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Understood