Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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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'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.
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The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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I try to mix it up! I do a little Pilates. I do a little Cardio Barre; sometimes I run or do the stairs.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
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Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
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I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.
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Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.
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A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
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No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.
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I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.
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A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
