Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

Stephen Covey

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• Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

  

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• I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

  

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• Being a role model is about being true to myself.

  

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• I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

  

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• My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

  

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• Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.

  

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• At 9 P.M., everything goes off - and it's hard. But it's something you've got to do. I'm wasting my life.

  

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• Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'

  

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• I've kept to myself, I've put my head down. I've gone to work. And I have felt undervalued.

  

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• I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something, and I tend to feel like it's leading me, and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.

  

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• I'm from a normal household. I haven't always had millions to spend on creams and clothes. I like something that's affordable, but good quality. With Avon, it's really accessible, and everyone loves it. It's a brand that you can rely on.

  

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• And I have known the eyes already, known them all - The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,Then how should I beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?

  

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• The social revolution has been slow in reaching our country. We have been exempt, not because we had solved the problems, but because we had not yet confronted them.

  

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• Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?

  

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• Alles, alles kann einer vergessen, nur nicht sich selbst, sein eigenes Wesen.

  

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• There's nothing you could do to me, nothing you could take away from me that would make me feel like I wasn't going to be all right.

  

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• If I had a job pitching for the Giants, I probably wouldn't be manning my own Twitter account.

  

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• The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

  

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• It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Purpose
  • Sometimes
  • Motivated