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.

Stephen Covey

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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 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

• 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

• 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

• The American people have made it abundantly clear that they want less government, not more. They want problems solved in a bipartisan manner, not the creation of new problems.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • People
  • American

• I don't think LVMH will want to significantly change the strategy of Loro Piana, and I don't think that they would have bought it otherwise.

  

  Pier Luigi Loro Piana

• In general, we believe in regulation - just as long as it is fair and balanced.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Believe
  • Long

• You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.

  

  John Buchan
  • Believe
  • True
  • Knowledge

• Thomas reached out and took my hand, turned it palm up, and said, "I believe that's healing very nicely." Aunt Charlotte opened the door just as he turned my hand over again and brushed a kiss across my knuckles. I experienced a nearly overpowering desire to hit him in the eye.

  

  Caroline Stevermer
  • Desire
  • Eye
  • Healing

• I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Respect
  • Singers
  • Even

• A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • May
  • You

• I've seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don't know how or why they do it.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Great
  • Why

• 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