Stephen Covey Quotes

I like confusing people and challenging myself.

I love what I do. I love getting to talk with these people, and I feel like I'm learning something every day. You also have to be a really good listener, which I think is an underestimated skill.

I would like to be the best in the world, but that's not the be-all and end-all. I want to have fun in my sport, and I want to take it as far as I can. Obviously, I do have big goals like that. But they don't take over who I am as a person and my family and everything else that's important in my life.

Education is the best way to relieve someone from a bad thought process.

I love to challenge people.

I started school because I felt like, as a songwriter, I was operating solely on instinct, and I was having a hard time deciding exactly what words I wanted to use. I felt like I wanted to be a writer, and being a curious person, school felt like a way to solve the problems I was having with my own work.

I strive to get better and better in understanding how the world works.

You don't have to always be the smartest person in the room, but if you listen and absorb what you are hearing, you will be ahead of the game.

To seek advice is easy, easy-approach job. To find the truth by yourself, that is a little difficult, and you have to work hard continuously, and you will find it.

I like to give myself time to deal with an issue. I get to the root of the matter and learn from it. I don't like to repeat mistakes.

Being a former engineer, you learn to always go back, study yourself, see what you could've done differently, see what you could've said.

As we grow, we learn to handle situations differently than we normally would.

Education has helped me a lot.

Education is the key. If you are educated, nothing can defeat you.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

I just find that each year I try something new. You can't fight the march of time. To balance that out, each year you should develop one more good habit. It levels the playing field.

Now, a good education is about so much more than just learning geometry or memorizing dates in history. All of that is important, but an education is also about exploring new things -- discovering what makes you come alive, and then being your best at whatever you choose

Without improving our mind there is no way to solve our human problems.

If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.

I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal

I'm mainly interested in people trying to figure s#!t out.

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.

If you think the cause of your problem is 'out there,' you'll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.