Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.
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While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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It's important to focus on how we can strengthen international trade.
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Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.
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I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?
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We had to understand things like why the top quark was so heavy and the electron is so light. The Higgs is a big, important step.
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If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.
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I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.
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My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
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Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.
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There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.
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New Directions is a reviewer’s nightmare; it’s enough punishment to read it all, without writing about it too.
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A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.
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No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.
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If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.
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An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
