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

• You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Power
  • Success
  • Community

• We all learned valuable lessons from that crop. The Lord showed us the importance of walking by faith, and not by sight, of trusting him unconditionally and never giving up.

  

  Angus Buchan
  • Faith
  • Lessons
  • Crop

• I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.

  

  Elaine de Kooning
  • Work
  • Character
  • Style

• When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Opportunity
  • Speak
  • Communication

• Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Understood