Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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Colombians are sick of 'Narcos' stories because Colombia is a country that has changed so much. It's a country that's completely different from the country that we see in 'Narcos.' They reconstructed themselves in 25 years, which is amazing.
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I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.
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I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
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When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognised for it.
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Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?
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It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.
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Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government.
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Rather than dull our consciences to the unmitigated violence of abortion, the passage of time has only enabled us to see and, frankly, better understand the innate cruelty of abortion and its horrific legacy - victims - while making us more determined than ever to protect the weakest and the most vulnerable.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
