Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.
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The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
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I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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Naked dudes are inherently funny.
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For my characters, it's important to get really specific about what they listen to. Because it affects how they move in the world.
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Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.
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My research debunks the myth that many people seem to have . . . that you become a leader by fighting your way to the top. Rather, you become a leader by helping others to the top. Helping your employees is as important, and many times more so, than trying to get the most work out of them.
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The leader must have trust in the people he leads; trust that they will perform their duties well. The people in the ranks must have trust in their leaders; trust that they will perform their duties completely. The people in the ranks must have trust and confidence in one another; trust that each will perform their duties well as members of the team.
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I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.
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Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
