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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Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
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Whether we start with a provisional status and legal permanent residence... or we set up some other way to assimilate legally, you can't ever put in something that says, 'You can never become a citizen.' That's un-American.
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Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too.
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I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.
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Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
