Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.

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• I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Good
  • Successful

• You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • You
  • Need
  • Washington

• These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Me
  • Sex
  • Days

• The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Live
  • Age

• No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Money
  • Rich
  • Poor

• Did you ever hear one of those corny, positive messages on someone's answering machine? 'Hi, it's a great day and I'm out enjoying it right now. I hope you are too. The thought for the day is share the love.' Beep. 'Uh, yeah, this is the VD clinic. Speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love.'

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Stop

• The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.

  

  T. H. White
  • Destiny

• The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you.

  

  Faraaz Kazi
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• You’ve been here before. It won’t kill you. It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Stop
  • Breathe
  • Crying

• They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Society
  • Promise
  • Discrimination

• The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Done
  • She
  • Humanity

• What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].

  

  Uri Avnery
  • Peace
  • Israel
  • Alternatives

• Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Done
  • Said
  • Branches

• When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Up
  • Artist
  • Grows

• I just want to start writing, whether or not any of it is useable or marketable.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Writing
  • I Want
  • Marketable

• And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Music
  • Voice
  • Hear

• This / is the use of trampolines / I will remember, the broken sunlight / Coming through the trees in a strange / Land, and lighting up my rising / And falling children, and their friends, / And the apples falling, / The new trees rising.

  

  Gerard Woodward
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Broken

• Then he added, in an almost threatening tone: Without these rasping hands, professor, not a chair would exist, or a building, a car, nothing, not even you; if we workers stopped working everything would stop, the sky would fall to earth and the earth would shoot up the sky, the plants would take over the cities, the Arno would flood your fine houses, and only those who have always worked would know how to survive, and as for you two, you with all your books, the dogs would tear you to pieces.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Hands
  • Building
  • Cities

• If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.

  

  Stephen Covey
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