Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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Everything has a place and time.
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There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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You have to ask if the country would have been ready for Barack Obama if we hadn't been prepared by Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. If they hadn't already been in positions of enormous power and influence - secretary of state, secretary of defence - you know what I mean?
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At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.
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I’ve known Donald (Trump) for a few decades, and what you can say without argument is that he’s a good father. His kids have turned out really well. There’s nothing bad you can say about that.
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Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
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If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.
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I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.
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You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.
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when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.
