Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

He who has a why can deal with any what or how.

Stephen Covey

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• I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Space
  • Guitar

• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Heart
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Different
  • Day

• Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • May
  • High
  • Honor

• I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Time
  • Different
  • Challenge

• I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Hope
  • Science

• Acceptance is right. Kindness is right. Love is right. I pray, right now, that we're moving into a kinder time when prejudice is overcome by understanding; when narrow-mindedness, and narrow-minded bigotry is overwhelmed by open-hearted empathy; when the pain of judgmentalism is replaced by the purity of love.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Moving

• This song 'All Aboard,' that tune allowed me to expand and kind of offer my audience something totally different because it's not bachata - I'm singing English, and that was really fun.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Song

• The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.

  

  Joel Edgerton

• Secretary Clinton and I have worked well together, but the Arab Spring is a different question... This administration, collectively, made some very bad decisions, and they now have to climb out of a deep hole.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Different
  • Together
  • Bad

• I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• You can't play a bad person; you can only be a person who does bad things for the right reasons.

  

  Dayton Callie
  • Bad

• You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • World
  • Amazing

• The GOP cannot expect to win the presidency in the future by simply relying on running up big numbers with white voters.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Up
  • Future
  • Running

• Coming of age as a young queer man of color, it was a rarity to see any reflections of myself portrayed in mainstream media. Turning on the television or going to the movies was an escape into the imagination, yet it did not allow me a place of true connection to what I was viewing on the screen in front of me.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
  • True
  • Age
  • Imagination

• I've always been the type of guy that wants to change, adapt and morph from year to year.

  

  Chris Jericho
  • Guy

• If I was producing something, it wouldn't make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn't put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn't go to a movie because that person's father is so and so.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Movie
  • Father
  • Theatre

• Canada has the world's largest Ukrainian population outside of Ukraine and Russia. As a senator from Minnesota, a state with a large Ukrainian-American community, I understand how important it is that Canada works with us to stand up to Russian aggression in Ukraine.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Book
  • Team
  • Comedy

• I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us.

  

  Dave Winfield
  • Sorry

• Schools of journalism at exemplary American research universities, where the academic disciplines still coexist, are positioned to draw upon the full intellectual and educational resources of the university environment to help produce the skilled, responsible, expert, knowledgeable and highly proficient journalism leaders that our society-indeed the world-has need of, especially in these complex and challenging times, ... Our democracy depends on journalism to keep its institutions challenged and responsive to the public's needs, and the quality of the profession demands the best a university can offer.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • World
  • American
  • Help

• I see I have this patience to wait it out, and the truth is no matter how dark I feel I would never take my own life, because when the darkness is over, then what a blessing is the feeblest ray of light!

  

  Valerie Martin
  • Patience
  • Blessing
  • Wait

• He who has a why can deal with any what or how.

  

  Stephen Covey