Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
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Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
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I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.
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Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
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I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.
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It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.
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I think if you left grownups to do what they really actually wanted most in the world to do, every single one of them would lie down and take a nap for the rest of their life. I know this because that's what every grownup does as soon as they're alone.
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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
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I seek no copy now of life's first half: Leave here the pages with long musing curled, And write me new my future's epigraph, New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!
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There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
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Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new(Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure.
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Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
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The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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I mean, I couldn't ask for a better life, man.
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I want to see the farm piece passed, but the nearly a trillion dollars in SNAP spending for food stamps is way too much.
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I wrote 'Bamboozled' to expose and uncover the lies liberals have used for generations to exploit minorities for the vote.
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People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses
