Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
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I'm doing what I want to do.
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For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
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Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
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If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.
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Come ordine era dato, il tutto avvenne,Che 'l consiglio del mal va raro invano.
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You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience.
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It is important to always look forward.
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At the end of the day, I know that I would rather be alone and occasionally lonely and unhappy than in a miserable marriage and lonely and unhappy all the time. I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.
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Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.
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If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
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Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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You can get insular with fashion.
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Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
