Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Fulfilling the four needs in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a "critical mass" of integration, we experience spontaneous combustion - an explosion of inner synergy that ignites the fire within and gives vision, passion, and a spirit of adventure to life.

Stephen Covey

• Passion
• Spiritual
• Vision
• Spirit
• Adventure
• Chemistry
• Spontaneous
• Synergy

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• There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • World
  • Live
  • Fear

• I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Family
  • Farmers
  • Budhana

• I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Mom

• I love taking chances.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Love
  • Chances
  • Taking

• I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Think
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Future
  • Looking
  • Everyone

• I think human nature is eternal and constant.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Human Nature

• People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Family

• You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.

  

  Eddie Money
  • You
  • Look
  • Same

• Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Words
  • Sports

• Ever since we published the first Apple report, we've had some other brands turning more proactive.

  

  Ma Jun
  • First
  • Apple
  • Proactive

• The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Movies

• All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Political
  • Action
  • Wish

• Mine has been a pretty strange path.

  

  Steve Carr
  • Path
  • Strange
  • Mine

• It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Done
  • Why
  • Stress

• The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.

  

  William Ames
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Spiritual

• The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Journey
  • Adventure
  • Satisfying

• Fulfilling the four needs in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a "critical mass" of integration, we experience spontaneous combustion - an explosion of inner synergy that ignites the fire within and gives vision, passion, and a spirit of adventure to life.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Passion
  • Spiritual
  • Vision