Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.

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• The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • Support

• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Teach
  • Students

• When I was a kid, I was super shy.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Kid
  • Shy
  • Super

• I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Nature

• A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Born

• It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Risk

• I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Away
  • Seem
  • Resolutions

• I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Always
  • Star
  • Creative

• I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Believe
  • House

• A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Lost

• When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Man
  • You

• We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Religion
  • Learn

• Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Long
  • Today
  • Man

• If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Me
  • Try

• I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Myself
  • Will
  • Later

• It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Remember
  • Career
  • Child

• In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • School
  • High
  • Black

• It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Religion
  • Sunshine
  • Flowers

• The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Government
  • Revolution
  • West

• It wouldn't bring her back. I know. Trust me, I do. And I would have done far worse, he says, if I'd thought there was a way to bring Regina back. I would have traded places. I would have sold souls. I would have torn this world apart. I would have done anything, broken any rule, just to bring her back.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • World
  • Done
  • Trust

• My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Goal
  • Gold
  • Still

• The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

  

  Alfonso Garcia Robles
  • Mind
  • War
  • Powerful

• Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Goal
  • Treats
  • Appointments