Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

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• What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Funny
  • Responsible
  • Who Am I

• One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Job

• Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Want
  • Violence
  • Gift

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Worry
  • Information
  • Rules

• I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

  

  Jack Black
  • Mean
  • Butter
  • Peanut Butter

• I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Day
  • Dark
  • Doing

• When I was singing, everybody liked me.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Me
  • Singing
  • Everybody

• My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• Because I'm a good girl, I tend to fall for the bad boy persona, and it ends up biting me in the butt. They end up not knowing how to treat me, and I end up completely devastated.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Che ben pigliar nel crin la buona sorteCarlo sapea, quando volgea la faccia.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Hope
  • Light

• Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby while in office, having heath care for myself and my son gave me some needed peace of mind.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Mother

• To be able to pitch in the postseason is great, and to be able to go out there and throw the ball well and help your team win is a great feeling.

  

  Matt Cain
  • Great
  • Help
  • Feeling

• Steven Spielberg had a tremendous influence on me through his early stuff. 'E.T.', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - 'Jaws,' I think, is one of the most beautifully directed films ever.

  

  Jeff Nichols

• The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.

  

  Joe Paterno

• I am blessed with a funny gene that makes me enjoy life.

  

  Karan Patel
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Blessed

• Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • World

• There is probably no such thing as a level playing field in political campaigns.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Political

• I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.

  

  Halsey
  • Time
  • Free
  • Perfect

• If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Memories
  • Helping
  • Information

• Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Important
  • Behinds