Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Don't get buried in the thick of thin things.

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• The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Women
  • Country
  • Understanding

• Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Hunting
  • Fish

• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Action
  • Day
  • Fall

• I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Girl

• The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Opportunity
  • Small
  • Confidence

• The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Money
  • Together
  • Government

• Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

  

  Arthur Keith
  • Nature

• One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, the very traits that let you succeed as a writer are not much help when the time comes to head out as 'The Author.'

  

  Jane Lindskold
  • Time
  • Help
  • Professional

• I liked in television that you do some work, then you perform, then you stop and you have a break because they have to set up lights, and then you do some more work. I really liked the pace of it; it really agreed with me. I enjoyed it.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Stop

• I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
  • Good
  • Bad

• Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

  

  Ai-jen Poo

• Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

  

  Paula Abdul
  • Art
  • Taken

• I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Blessed

• When I'm done skating, I guarantee you that I will not look back and remember standing on the podium. I'm going to remember these days - being with the team. Training alone, in my basement. Training when everybody else is sleeping. Doing things that nobody else is doing. Digging down. Seeing what kind of character I truly have. I love that stuff.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Done
  • Character
  • Remember

• Just because war is hell doesn’t mean you can’t have a little fun.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • War
  • Fun
  • Mean

• If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Spring

• Don't worry about the pressure or the responsibility. Just live in it, have fun, and when everything seems to be going right, just stay humble and remember your family.

  

  Roman Reigns
  • Live
  • Family
  • Remember

• I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Girl
  • You
  • Chinese

• Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Question

• We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Powerful

• THE HEART'S DEAD ARE NEVER BURIED.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Heart
  • Hearts
  • Buried

• Don't get buried in the thick of thin things.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Teamwork
  • Buried
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