Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy.

Stephen Covey

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• Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Value
  • Never
  • Lead

• If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Man
  • Better
  • Problems

• I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Employment

• 'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Kids
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

  

  Beck
  • True
  • Hair
  • Artist

• I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Love
  • Like
  • Questions

• Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Learn
  • Understand
  • Curiosity

• In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Reality
  • Speak
  • Statement

• Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Together
  • Happy
  • Pride

• The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually.

  

  David F. Houston
  • May
  • Taken

• The idea of your younger sibling being in pain and realizing you are the cause of that pain is unbearable.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Pain
  • Sibling

• Doing improv really got me started in my whole career.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Career

• We don't think there is any money to be made in payments anymore. The entire business model of extracting a toll or having time delays around the movement of value is going away completely.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • Time
  • Money
  • Business

• We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Society
  • Revolution

• Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.

  

  David Neeleman
  • People
  • Wife
  • Flying

• I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music

• I did some modeling here and there but nothing really big. There was a time when I simply bummed around, waiting for offers.

  

  Coco Martin
  • Time
  • Waiting

• I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Real
  • Love
  • Nature

• If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Up
  • Home
  • Focus

• I want to make my own path and leave behind a good legacy for myself and honestly, I just want to be innovative and always down for other people. That's what I want to be remembered by. I want to inspire.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • Good
  • Path

• Like most Americans, I live in the line of fire of a shooting match that is going on over Reagan's legacy. It's between shrill and extremist voices who alternately conceive of him either as an icon of all that's great and good or a representative of everything that's gone wrong with this country. And obviously neither is the case. He is just a man.

  

  Eugene Jarecki
  • Legacy
  • Americans
  • Voices

• To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Legacy