Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

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• It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Interesting

• There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Law
  • Judge

• I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Family
  • Home
  • Friends

• I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Need
  • Rules
  • Immigration

• Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Political
  • Government
  • Moral

• Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Essence
  • Spirituality
  • Month

• I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliche responses. Nor does it tell the full story.

  

  David Icke
  • Men
  • Green

• like trying a man's finger for having pulled the trigger of a gun which murdered someone.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Trying
  • Gun
  • Murder

• It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Looks
  • Gentleman
  • Blonde

• You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Done
  • Ignoble

• The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Future

• Involve yourself every day. Work hard and figure out how to love acting all day, every day. It's getting into a made-up situation and making it good and making it real and just playing, just practicing and playing. Like the musicians that I played piano with: they never expect to be rich or famous, but they, for the sheer joy of it, play every day, all day.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • Love
  • Musicians
  • Played

• It's bad. It's damned bad.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Bad
  • Civil War
  • Damned

• Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.

  

  William Cowper
  • Soul
  • Joy
  • Heaven

• Couples don't fall out of love so much as they fall out of repentance.

  

  Gary L. Thomas
  • Much
  • Repentance
  • Couples

• But in our time women are no longer subject to the will of men. Quite the contrary. They have been given every opportunity to win their independence and if, after all this time, they still have not liberated themselves and thrown off their shackles, we can only arrive at one conclusion: there are no shackles to throw off.

  

  Esther Vilar
  • Women
  • Opportunity
  • Conclusion

• I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Myself
  • Try
  • Results

• You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.

  

  Stephen Covey
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