Stephen M R Covey Quotes

A commit gives hope. Following through that commitment builds trust ~ Stephen M.R. Covey

If we can't trust ourselves, we'll have a hard time trusting others. ~ Stephen M.R. Covey

Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.) ~ Richie Norton

I was too young to care about money at the time. That didn't motivate me. What motivated me was I didn't want to let my father down.

Stephen M. R. Covey ~ Janet Bray Attwood

The first job of a leader - at work or at home - is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility. ~ Stephen M.R. Covey

Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing. ~ M.J. Rose

[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come, I would consider buying her a new one, the latest Dean R. Koontz or Stephen King or whatever, but I couldn't. I didn't want to encourage her. I couldn't touch my father's cigarettes, couldn't look at the Pall Mall cartons in the pantry. I was the sort of child who couldn't even watch commercials for horror movies - the ad for Magic, the movie where marionette kills people. sent me into a six-month nightmare frenzy. So I couldn't look at her books, would turn them over so their covers wouldn't show, the raised lettering and splotches of blood - especially the V.C. Andrews oeuvre, those turgid pictures of those terrible kids, standing so still, all lit in blue. ~ Dave Eggers

The moon shone upon his almost transparent hands, and Stephen saw that the nails were fearfully long and that the light shone through them. ~ M.R. James

Inspiration creates a never-ending Power that makes you go on and on and on and on!-RVM ~ R.v.m.

If we can be Glad ... But we choose to be Sad, we Are MAD! ! !-RVM ~ R.v.m.

She speculates for the first time on what Melanie could have been, could have become, if she'd lived before the Breakdown. If she'd never been bitten and infected. Because this is a child here, whatever else she is, and she's never lost that sense of her own centre before except when she smelled blood and turned, briefly into an animal. And look at how pragmatically, how ruthlessly, she's coped with that. But Justineau only pursues this train of thought for a moment. When Melanie starts to speak, she commands their full attention. "I ~ M.R. Carey

But science has given us new eyes that allow us to see down to the deeper roots of the world's structure, and there all we see is order and symmetry of pristine mathematical purity. ~ Stephen M. Barr

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now. ~ Stephen M. Walt

When Passion meets Inspiration, an Obsession is born. -RVM ~ R.v.m.

She's always been a good girl. But she ate pieces of two men, and very probably killed them both. Killed them with her teeth. She was hungry, and they were her bread. ~ M.R. Carey

Yes, I definitely prefer the daylight population of the playing fields to that which comes there after dark. ~ M.R. James

Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved. You've already stopped being the person who had the dreams, so it feels more like a weird echo of something that already happened to you a long time ago. ~ M.R. Carey

It's not just Pandora who had that inescapable flaw. It seems like everyone has been built in a way that sometimes makes them do wrong and stupid things. ~ M.R. Carey

We are so busy trying to make a better TOMORROW that we forget to make the best of TODAY.-RVM ~ R.v.m.

The minutes will Tick, the days will Pass, the Journey is Ours, Smile while it Lasts. ~ R.v.m.

Everybody counts - the Happy ones Count their Blessings and the sad ones Count their Troubles.-RVM ~ R.v.m.

It's equinox, with the world balanced between winter and summer, life and death, like a spinning ball balanced on the tip of someone's finger. ~ M.R. Carey

Life has taught me that to be Happy one must attain Peace. For without Peace, there can be no Happiness. ~ R.v.m.

Many people become prosperous only to realize that Success is more Fulfillment than Achievement. ~ R.v.m.

How can you get what you want if you do not know what you are seeking?-RVM ~ R.v.m.

Some people don't Think; they blink and sink! TAKE CHARGE and LIVE!-RVM ~ R.v.m.

Look at yourself-Are your eyes twinkling?Is your heart Dancing?Are your Lips smiling?If yes, then you are truly enjoying your Life.-RVM ~ R.v.m.

I could think of any moment and see him weaved throughout it. It was as though his soul was interwoven with mine ~ M.R. Field

He hands her his pack, which he's emptied. "You mean me?" Justineau demands. "You think I'm not pulling my weight?" It would feel good to have a stand-up argument with Parks right then, but he doesn't seem keen to play. "No, I didn't mean you. I meant in general." "People in general? You were being philosophical?" "I was being a grumpy bastard. It's what I wear to the office most days. I guess you probably noticed that." She hesitates, wrong-footed. She didn't think Parks was capable of self-deprecation. But then she didn't think he was capable of changing his mind. "Any more rules of engagement?" she asks him, still hurting in some obscure way, still not mollified. "How to survive when shopping? Top tips for modern urban living?" Parks gives the question more consideration than she was expecting. "Use up the last of that e-blocker," he suggests. "And don't die. ~ M.R. Carey

Positive Power can inspire; Negative Power can perspire. Which power are you on?-RVM ~ R.v.m.

Learn to be Positive always. In pleasure or Pain, in Sun or Rain, in Loss or Gain, always be POSITIVE! - RVM. ~ R.v.m.

Pleasures that we seek are not Happiness at its peak ... for it is Contentment that gives True fulfillment.-RVM ~ R.v.m.

Trust is powerful. It is also fast. It can be lost quickly. Trust is also reciprocal. If you give trust, it will be given back to you. Delegation is a result of this trust. ~ Steven R. Covey

Don't be amongst those who are trying to build a better Tomorrow. You can have a better tomorrow only if your Today is better than your Yesterday. ~ R.v.m.

If you keep doing things that don't matter to you, you will not have time to do things that really do.-RVM ~ R.v.m.

In the journey of life, we pass pleasures & pain. There will be sunshine and rain; there will be loss and gain. But we must learn to smile again and again.-RVM ~ R.v.m.

Dare to share for to give is to truly live.-RVM ~ R.v.m.

A day later, when a pair of dark wolves came sniffing around, they found him. Lemmy couldn't help but giggle with delight as they tore him apart and ate him. *** ~ M.R. Mathias

Don't let your life be a tape recorder of the misery of the past. You can do nothing about the past. -RVM ~ R.v.m.

I raised my eyebrows. Were they really talking about how cute I was when I got mad? Talk about taking the wind out of my sail! I wanted to say 'It's not cute, it's very manly!' but I didn't think either of them would appreciate that.

Are we going to do this or not? I asked impatiently. ~ M.R. Merrick

But the knowledge isn't any good without the infrastructure. ~ M.R. Carey

In the history of science we have discovered a sequence of better and better theories or models, from Plato to the classical theory of Newton to modern quantum theories. It is natural to ask: Will this sequence eventually reach an end point, an ultimate theory of the universe, that will include all forces and predict every observation we can make, or will we continue forever finding better theories, but never one that cannot be improved upon? We do not yet have a definitive answer to this question, but we now have a candidate for the ultimate theory of everything, if indeed one exists, called M-theory. M-theory is the only model that has all the properties we think the final theory ought to have, and it is the theory upon which much of our later discussion is based.
M-theory is not a theory in the usual sense. It is a whole family of different theories, each of which is a good description of observations only in some range of physical situations. ~ Stephen Hawking

Those who work hard will succeed,
While those who slack at their work will be in need ~ Tristan D.M.R.

Everybody has to die. Why cry, when you have wings to fly! -RVM ~ R.v.m.

Christ can forgive you," he whispered, though he didn't believe it. There wasn't a hint of compassion in those ice-blue eyes.
"That's grand," she said.
Her features became again those of the pleasant brown-haired nurse. She smiled, pulled the pillow from under his head, and covered his face. ~ Stephen M. Irwin

RVM's Thought for the Day - A simple way to be grateful is to close your eyes for a minute and think of those who never got a chance to open them. ~ R.v.m.

Those who have the FREEDOM to Row can get to where they want to Go!-RVM ~ R.v.m.

Whenever problem arrives, do three things - Face it, Fight it and Finish it.-RVM ~ R.v.m.