Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
-
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
-
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
-
You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
-
If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
-
There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
-
I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
-
Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
-
One of the things I love about music is live performance.
-
I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
-
I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
-
There is no other language as similar to Hebrew like Arabic.
-
Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.
-
And who (in time) knows whither we may ventThe treasure of our tongue? To what strange shoresThis gain of our best glory shall be sentT' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?What worlds in the yet unformed OccidentMay come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?
-
All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
-
Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.
-
Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
-
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
-
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
-
I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors were Jews, and there were also Jews a few houses from us. We saw how they were rounded up and taken away. That made a very great impression on me.
-
A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but it's very limiting.
-
I'm not sure plays tell people anything. I think plays include an audience in an experience that is happening in that moment, and that's the specialness. What people take away has almost as much to do with what they bring as what we do.
-
A lot of people are focused on climate change as a defining challenge of our time. A lot of people think it is a non-problem, at least in the United States.
-
Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.
