Best Covey Quotes

#1. Wait, I thought I was your dream guy,' Peter says. Not to me, to Kitty. He knows he's not my dream guy. My dream guy is Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables. Handsome, loyal, smart in school.

Jenny Han

#2. Never read the comments, Covey! That's the first rule of-"
"If you say 'Fight Club' to me right now, I will hang up on you.

Jenny Han

#3. 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

#4. We could spend weeks, months, even years laboring with the personality ethic trying to change our attitudes and behaviors and not even begin to approach the phenomenon of change that occurs spontaneously when we see things differently

Stephen R. Covey

#5. Stephen Covey's The 8th Habit

L. David Marquet

#6. Music makes everything more romantic, doesn't it? One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken.

Jenny Han

#7. Stephen Covey says, "Before you begin scrambling up the ladder of success, make sure that it is leaning against the right building." Step

Brian Tracy

#8. In his work as a management consultant, Covey often asked his corporate clients to write a one-sentence answer to the question What is this organization's essential mission or purpose and what is its main strategy to accomplish that?

Bruce Feiler

#9. Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life.

Stephen R. Covey

#10. One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.

Tom Peters

#11. We broke so easily. Like it was nothing. Like we were nothing. Does that mean it was never meant to be in the first place? That we were an accident of fate? If we were meant to be, how could we both walk away like that?

Jenny Han

#12. Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.

Stephen Covey

#13. But there was nothing beautiful about the word "brainwash". To clean the brain. To strip it bare.

Gemma Malley

#14. I love you Anna Covey,' he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers, and Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn't a Surplus any more. And nor was Peter.

Gemma Malley

#15. The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.

Stephen R. Covey