Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.
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It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward more loose stuff. As soon as I got back to New York, I started wearing suits 25% of the year. Then, I realized how important it is for the suit to really fit you and be tight.
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Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes.
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The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
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Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
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When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.
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I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
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I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
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Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.
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It's only the giving that makes you what you are.
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Music can tear me up inside.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged.
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You do the things you have to do in the order you have to do them.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.
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The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses
