Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
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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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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
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You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.
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Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
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Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.
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I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.
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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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I started composing when I was around 13, and back then, people used to say that I needed to be a composer or a performer, but I can't be good at both of them. I could never understand why anyone would say that. Jellyroll did both, Bessie Smith did both, and so did I.
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Hugh Jackman really inspired me as a kid. He's a cool Aussie guy who works very hard, and he's a fantastic actor. Obviously, he keeps really fit. He seems like he's happy acting. Who knows if he really is, but he gives you that impression.
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Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.
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With more women in the workplace and in positions of power and leadership, with the legalization of gay marriage and the emerging liberation of the LGBTQ community, traditional definitions of masculinity are changing for the better.
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I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.
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The Beatles' story is all of our stories.
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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
