Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
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I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
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There is no other language as similar to Hebrew like Arabic.
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Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.
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And who (in time) knows whither we may ventThe treasure of our tongue? To what strange shoresThis gain of our best glory shall be sentT' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?What worlds in the yet unformed OccidentMay come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?
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I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.
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If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.
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I admire Rihanna.
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Writing songs has always been my first and foremost love, and, you know, whether I continue to have success as an artist or not, I will always write songs.
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The Katrina matter was terrible.
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Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.
