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

• I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • High
  • Black

• 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

• The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Book
  • Difficult
  • Revelations

• A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him. It is necessarily part of the business of a banker to maintain appearances, and to confess a conventional respectability, which is more than human. Life-long practices of this kind make them the most romantic and the least realistic of men.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Danger
  • Sound banker
  • Orthodox way

• Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

  

  William James
  • Energy
  • Individual
  • Given

• I think there are a lot of different things that dreams do for the individual and they're fascinating because it's not totally known what they do, but we have some science that is opening the door to a new world as we speak.

  

  Tom DeLonge Angels & Airwaves
  • Thinking
  • Door
  • Dreams

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

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Individual
  • Collaboration
  • Effects