Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.

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• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Doing

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Know
  • Doing

• There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Up
  • Career
  • Man

• I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Think
  • New York

• I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lucky
  • Got
  • Seasons

• America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Justice
  • Progress

• The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Good
  • Education
  • Purpose

• Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • People
  • Game
  • Football

• Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • World
  • Attention
  • Dark

• Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Know
  • Yourself
  • Moment

• Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Black
  • Party
  • Exercise

• ..the long Russian word for creation: 'proisvedenie' - so different from its shorter counterparts in English, French and German - expresses for me the whole history and process of creation, lengthy, mysterious, infinitely complex and foreshadowed by divine predestination.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Different
  • Long
  • History

• Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor … Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done - and was about to do.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • Work
  • Men

• I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Women
  • Children
  • Sick

• I think a lot of artists get confused when people like their music; they think that means people know and like them. I'm sure there's an element of truth to that, but to me, the music I make is what I'm most proud of. I prefer to focus on that and for people to focus on the music, too.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • People
  • Music
  • Truth

• What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it.

  

  Joan Blades

• I still love Delhi but get scared of the madness sometime. I know that my fans love me. But it gets a bit tough to handle when, in their excitement, they start touching and poking you to see if you're for real.

  

  Preity Zinta
  • Real

• If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is.

  

  Reggie Watts
  • World
  • Place
  • Pay

• The real practice of love goes beyond satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Wallowing in pleasure can be just as limiting as wallowing in pain if you don't open your heart beyond the satisfaction of your personal emotional needs.

  

  David Deida
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Pain

• Freedom, that he always thought was outward motion, turns out to be this inward dwindling.

  

  John Updike
  • Freedom

• We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • World
  • Money
  • Dream

• I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • World
  • Home
  • Significant