Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.

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• I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Nature

• Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Stop
  • Fashion
  • Like

• I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Make
  • Used
  • Watch

• I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Wind

• Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Wonder
  • Audience
  • Festivals

• She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • She
  • You
  • Me

• I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Me
  • Gay
  • Laugh

• I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Change
  • Style
  • Season

• For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Business
  • War
  • Peace

• All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Want
  • Ever
  • Depend

• The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Country
  • Why
  • Home

• The reality is different. They are so matured as far as democracy is concerned, they rejected the color TV promised by Congress. They rejected the color TV, and they accepted a person who says that I'll serve the notice to tax evaders. And this is the strength of the democracy.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Democracy

• Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Art
  • Suffering

• Head and neck injuries are what parents thinking about letting their children play tackle football should be thinking about, talking about, and demanding answers about, from any coach presenting himself as a worthy custodian for their child's introduction to tackle football.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Parents

• When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're laughing, because they're relaxed and they're disarmed.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Character

• I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Life
  • Marine

• If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Life

• Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.

  

  Emily Rose
  • Life
  • Art

• I'm not an attorney or a person who does intellectual property .

  

  Manning Marable
  • Intellectual
  • Property
  • Attorney

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• I want to speak seventeen languages. When you think like that, you'll be consumed by failure. I'm haunted daily by what I don't know.

  

  Kelsey Grammer
  • Failure
  • Daily

• I love traveling around and talking to women in groups like the Girl Scouts, and being able to work with them is such an honor. For me, it's always about working really hard and being able to help other people, which is what I've done with both of my books.

  

  Katherine Schwarzenegger
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • People
  • Business
  • Character