Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.

Stephen Covey

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• As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.

  

  Taylor Handley
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Friendship

• Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Think
  • Player
  • Confidence

• Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Everything

• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religious
  • Nothing

• Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Doing
  • Audience

• Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Political
  • Democracy
  • Values

• There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Enjoy
  • Show
  • Industrial

• It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Attitude

• Basketball was every day of my life. Wake up with a ball - sometimes I'd sleep with it because someone told me that was better for you.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Sleep

• I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

  

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue
  • Important
  • Art

• You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

  

  Anthony Minghella
  • Long
  • Alone

• You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.

  

  Chesley Sullenberger
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • Ambition
  • Humility

• Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

  

  Peter Guber
  • Feeling
  • Reading
  • Air

• I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • God

• If you think that we've overregulated in the environmental space what I can show you is that we have tripled the amount of wind power in this country, increased by tenfold the amount of solar power. We are producing as much oil and gas as we've ever produced.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Power
  • Space

• To me, right there, enough said - Kobe Bryant (third team), not acceptable.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Team
  • Acceptable
  • Kobe Bryant

• The more film festivals, theatrical shows, and music performances and visual arts we have, the less chances there are for war. Art is hope, and it is found in hope, and that's why we need to share our experiences and cherish art.

  

  Haris Pasovic
  • War
  • Music performances
  • Film festivals

• I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.

  

  Ennio Morricone
  • Music
  • Thinking

• The American people deserve their government to be open and accountable.

  

  Charles Boustany
  • People
  • American

• Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Individual
  • Collaboration
  • Effects