Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.
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I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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While it can feel unfair to have to make a career decision because of a morally deficient boss, doing so can sometimes lead you in the right direction, if a bit faster than you otherwise would have preferred.
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I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?
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How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
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Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorced. When the bad starts outweighing the good on a consistent basis, you may feel that taking the next step is appropriate. It is a very personal decision and most likely should be arrived upon with the help of some kind of counseling or support.
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There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
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It's part of our nature. As much as I love, if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.
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Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
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At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.
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I love women. I mean, I'm married, but I used to get in all kinds of trouble.
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The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.
