Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.
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The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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Williams really does feel like a family, and I have built up very good relationships with people here; in fact, some of my best friends work for Williams. A friendly atmosphere can really help on the track as well because I feel like I can communicate freely with the team.
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Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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To me, romance and suspense go hand in hand. What's more suspenseful than wondering how two wonderful people can manage to get together in spite of the world going crazy around them?
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A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.
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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
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The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.
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The main virtue of geometric shapes is that they aren't organic, as all art otherwise is. A form that's neither geometric or organic would be a great discovery.
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The thing with newspapers is that they are a filter. We're relying on the editors of that paper to be a filter and to tell you that this is worth reading about, this is quality, and this is quite reliable.
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Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.
