Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

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• The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Thought
  • Criticism
  • Romantics

• After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Hope
  • Smile
  • Seeing

• Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Feeling
  • Woman
  • Pity

• Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Fruit
  • Chicken

• All of my main characters have been under 30.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Characters
  • Been
  • Main

• The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Same
  • Morals

• The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Idea

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

  

  Edie Falco
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Great
  • Cool
  • Advice

• I love my country so much.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Country
  • Love
  • Much

• A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • American
  • America
  • Today

• Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Morning

• When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Opinion

• Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Country
  • Power
  • Fool

• They just don’t trust people. They don’t trust individuals, they don’t trust any change that should serve and benefit people, and they try to stop it.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Stop
  • Trust

• Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Psychology

• I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

  

  Len Goodman
  • Good
  • Marriage

• Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our 'personal assistant.' They want to wake us in the morning, have their artificial intelligence software guide us through our days, and never quite leave our sides.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Morning

• No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • People
  • Matter
  • Demand

• In the Dead Sea Scrolls, there are many Aramaic texts from the time of Jesus, so one can get a pretty good idea of what the language of Jesus looked liked.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Grief is love not wanting to let go.

  

  Earl A Grollman
  • Grief
  • Letting Go

• 'Ugly Betty' has opened my eyes to the world of fashion journalism - I'm looking forward to going to college for that. Until then, I don't know. Will I appear on 'Glee?'

  

  Mark Indelicato
  • World
  • College
  • Eyes

• Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • World
  • Technology
  • Innovation