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Stephen Covey Quotes

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

Stephen Covey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: October 24, 1932 - July 16, 2012

Topics

Age School Pressure Better Doing

I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping.

Missy Elliott

Singing Kid Always Porch Would

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Lucretius

Mind Guilty Absent Though Apply

I still try to treat football as a game even if there are now other considerations at stake, especially economic ones.

Dimitri Payet

Football Treat Game Now Try Still

Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

Denis Dutton

Good Art Culture You Down Museums

Character is power.

Booker T. Washington

Character Power

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

William Hazlitt

Good World Nothing Fine Speculation

I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how bad guys would look like swinging, and how guys talked about how he could throw every day and didn't hurt his arm. That's how I grew up learning.

Phil Niekro

Learning Day Hurt Remember Look Bad

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

Petrarch

Love Youth Only Practical While

I was shocked when I moved to Sydney how very few indigenous people I came across. And so when I go to places like Maroubra or Redfern or Waterloo or Erskineville, I feel more at home because of the people I'm around - anywhere I can see a face that reflects someone that looks like my family, I feel much more at home.

Shari Sebbens

Family Home People Face Someone Go

I'd never really experienced the West before moving to Colorado. The East Coast, where I grew up, has a lot of big cities, like Boston and New York, and is more densely populated, and I instantly fell in love with the big open spaces of the West, where you can see not just for a few miles but for a few hundred miles.

Tyler Hamilton

Love New York Moving You New Never

With 'More Than Words,' we wrote that, so we are that. I'm just happy people can connect with any of our songs. If that song opened the floodgates for us to be able to tour the world over and over, how could I be unhappy with that?

Nuno Bettencourt

Words Happy People World Song More

I make an all right Bowie. Actually, I look more like Cilla Black with that wig.

Noel Fielding

Black Look More Right Wig Like