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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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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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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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
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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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My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
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The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.
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I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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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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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
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I want to make films that make a difference. I want to be out and hope that that will make things better for gay people and for myself. I hope one day I can start to make the kind of projects or be involved with kind of projects that can really make a difference.
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When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the time of Islam's founding more than 1,300 years earlier. Afghan women's lives offered the most visible sign of the imagined past to which Afghanistan's present was to be returned.
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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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'American Idol' is such a big platform. It's been on for so many seasons. I went on the show not thinking I was going to make it that far at all because there was so many talented people that auditioned.
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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.
