Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.

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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Universe
  • Painting
  • Patterns

• I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Writer

• Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Doors

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• While most philanthropists tend to flock together and build their teams around friends, family, or others who happen to be retired or with a lot of free time on their hands, a great entrepreneur knows that success is directly related to the quality and talents of their team.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Great
  • Family

• I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Records
  • Hits
  • Legendary

• I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Death

• It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Heart
  • Political
  • Same

• I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • American
  • Know
  • Community

• Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Day

• A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Black
  • Lawyer
  • Group

• 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

• Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • People
  • God
  • Friends

• Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Pictures
  • Room
  • Press

• I don't get dressed up every day. I'm very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a 'fashionista.' I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I'm running around in jeans.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Sex

• We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her!

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Health

• Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• It felt great knowing that I got to help the winningest class in Villanova history, to be able to be a part of that. It's something special.

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • Great
  • History
  • Help

• Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Top
  • Pile
  • Gigantic ego

• It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Reading

• Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Children
  • Potential