Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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I was so lucky to have parents who supported me, 100%, with whatever I was doing, both financially and emotionally. Having that they made my life so much easier. Instead of becoming a bartender and trying to survive while trying to pursue your dreams, I didn't have to worry about that aspect. I could just pursue my dreams.
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I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing.
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People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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I'm so bored by business and money.
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
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If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.
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Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.
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All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
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I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
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There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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I thought inside 'I must really be crazy, now - because craziness is where everybody agrees about something - except you!' And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.
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People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.
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Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
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I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.
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Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
