Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Stephen Covey

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• Reason
• Sometimes
• Company
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• Ethical

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• I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

  

  Larry Bird
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• There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.

  

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• I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

  

  Jack Ma
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• The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.

  

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• Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
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• As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• It's a very unique feeling - to be that strong and unbreakable. But I'm working towards it.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Strong
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• The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • People
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• People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • People
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• When North Koreans cross the border into China, they are stunned to learn that the Chinese can afford to eat rice daily, sometimes for three meals daily.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Sometimes
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• I give strong advice, but I don't expect it to be followed.

  

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• Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Up
  • Time
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• 'Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered with tolerance, goodwill and understanding.' (Attributed to Mara by his successor as President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, 10 October 2005).

  

  Kamisese Mara
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• Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Great
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• As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.

  

  Andie MacDowell
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• The basic idea is always constructed around piano or guitar and a voice, that's what we live and die by, because if you build up from that foundation, it's going to be strong.

  

  Wesley Schultz The Lumineers
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• Not only the attackers, but the defenders - it's on the attackers to prepare themselves to break through the strong defense.

  

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• Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.

  

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• I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

  

  Adrian Grenier
  • Up
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• There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they're going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they're still here.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
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• In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

  

  Matt Dillon

• I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.

  

  Alexander Borodin
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• There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Strong
  • Reason
  • Sometimes