Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
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Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
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I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.
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Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.
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‘…The senior Mr Denham’s,’ he said, with deadly Eastern realism, ‘will perhaps only be better in the grave.
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My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.
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I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
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Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
