Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.
Quotes to Explore
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Life is a school of probability.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.
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I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.
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It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
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Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.
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The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
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Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.
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I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.
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I want to do a jean line for boys and girls that are sometimes too skinny to fit into jeans, or sometimes a little bit too husky to fit into some jeans.
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I stay away from negative relationships. They are energy-sapping vampires. I can't handle them.
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I've never read it because I'd like to see one Shakespeare play that I don't know what happens. I close my ears and hum whenever I hear anything about 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre.'
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I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.
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If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.
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It was a very, very happy childhood, but I always knew I wanted to see the world.
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I think it's a right that every American parent should have - choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.
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A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
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In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
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If one person “wastes” away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?
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To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.
