Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
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I lean into all things that are a little off. I will always wear overalls. At this point, I find a way in most of my life to wear a jumpsuit or an overall, anything that's sort of like an all-in-one situation. I do that on the red carpet a lot.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.
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Government is not show business.
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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
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Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
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I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.
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After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.
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True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.
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Les amants qui aiment bien n'écrivent pas leur bonheur.
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The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.
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I'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off.
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I really don't think of myself as a science writer.
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Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.
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Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.
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I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.
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I have always thought and I still think that the Central Bank should act independently. Indeed, it does, you can take my word. I do not interfere in the decisions of the Central Bank and I do not give instructions to the Bank management or to its head.
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Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.
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There's no demand for a body of work, though writers will be criticized for not having produced one.
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If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
