Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.
Stephen Covey
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
Omari Hardwick
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
Daisy Berkowitz
I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
Vincent Cassel
More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.
Sam Shepard
'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
Bat for Lashes
Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
Pamela Meyer
Chinese sausage, which is widely available from Asian grocers and online, is sweet, rich, and enticingly smoky. I add it to steamed rice with strips of omelette and a few baby veg stir-fried with soy.
Yotam Ottolenghi
I prioritize in life. I like to work, I do TV shows, I do a lot of Iron Man training. I enjoy kicking back on a good night and drinking wine until I go to bed, and having fun with my friends. You just have to make time for it and keep it balanced.
Joe Bastianich
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
Arthur Keith
David Harrington, who's the violinist and founder of Kronos, is a super open-minded and adventurous guy.
Bryce Dessner
The National
My music is like a diary. I use every experience.
Future
You can't escape from yourself, can you?
Bernard Sumner
New Order
Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.
Phil Bredesen
There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.
Billy Collins
When I was little, I was obsessed with Roland Rat. I also loved Danger Mouse. Later on, when I got a bit older, I was obsessed with Ren & Stimpy, but Roland Rat and Danger Mouse, they were my guys. They were my team.
Daniel Rigby
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.
C. S. Lewis
How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.
Stephen Covey
