Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

Stephen Covey

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• I like films to be complete in their written form.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Like
  • Form
  • Complete

• Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Child
  • Blessed

• I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Me
  • Person
  • Planet

• To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Politicians
  • Themselves

• The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Brain
  • Student
  • Improving

• I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Grew

• We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Time
  • End
  • Perseverance

• Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Love
  • See
  • Difference

• Our platform is a one-stop shop, from marketing and promotion through to ticketing. But even in the early days, in 2006-07, when we were mostly carrying shortform video, we became the premier movie marketing platform.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Movie
  • Stop
  • Marketing

• Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • World
  • Bad
  • Game

• If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Black
  • Find
  • Anything

• I tend to latch on to things and not let go.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Things
  • Go
  • Let Go

• No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.

  

  Edward Livingston
  • Suffering
  • Slavery

• I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Wish
  • Dune

• There's an amazing movie called 'Los Angeles Plays Itself.'

  

  Valerie Faris
  • Movie
  • Amazing

• I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!

  

  Lesley Nicol
  • Wish
  • Hand
  • Bored

• You can't play a bad person; you can only be a person who does bad things for the right reasons.

  

  Dayton Callie
  • Bad

• There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode.

  

  Linda Cardellini
  • Character

• It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Political
  • Training
  • Office

• When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Team

• Initially, when people asked us when 'Toy Story 2' was going to come out, we'd say, 'We have no interest in sequels. We just want to do original stories.'

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • People

• I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fear

• When you're being bullied, it can feel like no one cares, and I'm so excited to tell the teens at the schools I visit that I wouldn't be there if their school didn't care.

  

  Jay Asher
  • School

• But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

  

  Stephen Covey
  • School
  • Roles
  • Modern