Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

Stephen Covey

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• I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
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• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
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• My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

  

  Xavier Samuel
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• In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

  

  Kate Reardon
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• 'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.

  

  Carlton Cuse
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• If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Attention
  • Care
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• Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Work
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• My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Family

• I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Achievement

• Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Science
  • Names
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• Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Boxing

• Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Dream
  • Support

• If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Men
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• If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Thinking
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• In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Life
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• I love everything from The Rolling Stones to Run-DMC to Nina Simone.

  

  Hannah Bronfman

• I've had the struggles; I've had emotional times, boring times, fun times, passionate times.

  

  Bill Macy
  • Fun
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• I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.

  

  Atticus Ross Nine Inch Nails
  • Music

• If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.

  

  Patti Smith
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• The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I suppose that a lot of people still keep relying on that, or some kind of image to perpetuate something that they think they're supposed to sound like. But that kind of takes you away from real inspiration and, you know, real artistic discovery of the individual.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • People
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  • Inspiration

• I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Punk

• Economics evolved as a more moral and more egalitarian approach to policy than prevailed in its surrounding milieu. Let's cherish and extend that heritage. The real contributions of economics to human welfare might turn out to be very different from what most people - even most economists - expect.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.

  

  Red Smith
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Respect

• Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Character
  • Looks
  • Equal