Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
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One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.
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I saw and loved.
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What I have learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.
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If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.
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It's important for Asian American kids to see themselves in stories and to feel seen. They need to know that their stories are universal, too, that they, too, can fall in love in a teen movie. They don't have to be the sidekick; they can be the hero.
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You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome.
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We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.
