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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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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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 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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Not greatly gifted, not deeply beautiful, Madonna tells America that fame comes from wanting it badly enough. And everyone is terribly good at badly wanting things.
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You make me feel like a natural man
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I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.
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I stuck with my education, you know, I really did that for my grandma. It meant a lot to her that I finished school and in the grand scheme of things it was her who had saved and helped provide for me this opportunity to go to school.
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Microeconomics: The study of who has the money and how I can get my hands on it.Macroeconomics: The study of which government agency has the gun, and how we can get our hands on it.
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As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all.
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The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses
