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
  • Audience
  • Doing

• 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 intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an attempt to bolster a growing reliance on the government--especially the judiciary--as the source of our rights. But if our rights are not unalienable, if they don't come from a source higher than ourselves, then they're malleable at the will of the state. This is a prescription for tyranny.

  

  Mark Levin
  • God
  • Growing
  • Effort

• You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.

  

  William Penn
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Privilege

• We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.

  

  Brenda Shoshanna
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Beliefs

• It matters, your game plan. But in the end, there are a lot of ways to play defense, and there are a lot of ways to run or throw the football. If you don't block anybody, I don't care what your grand scheme is, if that nose guard is in your backfield three yards, it doesn't matter.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Game
  • Football
  • Plan

• If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Eyes
  • Judgment
  • Happening

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

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Individual
  • Collaboration
  • Effects