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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Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.
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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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Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family.
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Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that I would never sing on stage anywhere else. Like Neil Diamond.
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Hail, hail rock and roll; deliver me from the days of old. Long live rock and roll; the beat of the drums, loud and bold. Rock, rock, rock and roll; the feelin' is there, body and soul.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
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A lot of times, when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.
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Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
