Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

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• We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • School
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Dad
  • Secret
  • Fan

• I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Love
  • Always

• So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • American
  • Day
  • Goal

• If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • You
  • Player
  • Basketball

• I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Myself

• I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Body
  • Opinions

• Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • You
  • Wonder
  • Film

• For me, I've learned if I want a very stable, normal relationship, where I'll be like, 'Okay, this is nice, I know what's going to happen in a month,' it's probably better to date outside the industry. But you can't help who you fall for. It's our dating pool.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Help
  • Relationship
  • Nice

• On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Father
  • House
  • Old

• I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Fashion
  • Interest
  • Tomboy

• No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Long
  • Think
  • Pretty

• When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... This violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Money
  • Power

• Playing in New York, there's a lot of pressure, but me and some Europeans like the pressure.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis

• Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

  

  Leo Durocher
  • Church
  • Baseball

• I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Live
  • Night
  • Lost

• Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Dad
  • Car
  • Brother

• When I won my first Grand Slam in Australia, and we came back, I had much more confidence. I had much more belief in my game, about my improvement.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Game
  • Confidence
  • Improvement

• I think my parents did a great job of reminding me that I wasn't as big a deal as maybe I thought I was at times.

  

  Matt Holliday
  • Great
  • Job
  • Parents

• There are many documentary filmmakers who have a tough time because they don't really get what they need to do what they want. There are so many people with good visions that should be encouraged and helped. And they will deliver, I'm sure.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.

  

  John Malkovich
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

  

  Christine Baranski
  • Culture
  • Sad

• I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • People
  • Blogs