Stephen Covey Quotes

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

Stephen Covey

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I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

Joan Sutherland

MotherGreatMeRememberSaidNever

I think the medium of television is so great for women, especially right now, because I feel like with 'Broad City' and Amy Schumer and 'Girls', the creators are the stars, so their voice is totally pure.

Jessica St. Clair

StarsWomenGreatCityVoiceThink

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

PositiveEncouragementMoreMuch

I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, 'Oh! We'll have something exactly like that.' It's very boring.

Max von Sydow

LoveSuccessCharacterThinkYou

Substandard housing was a blow to your psychological health, not only because things like dampness, mold, and overcrowding could bring about depression but also because of what living in awful conditions told you about yourself.

Matthew Desmond

HealthDepressionYourselfYouBring

When he emerged Lou Dobbs the populist, he was so hard to peg. A mishmash of contradictions: anti-outsourcing, anti-globalization, pro-international-trade, pro-free-enterprise, anti-corporatism, pro-choice, pro-Second Amendment, pro-gay-marriage, pro-gays-serving-openly-in-the-military, pro-military, anti-war-in-Iraq-and-Afghanistan.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

Roger Ebert

PeopleCelebrateThinkOpinionsTry

I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that he was intelligent. It became apparent after a short period that Raymond thought in terms of visual signs and movements.

Robert Wilson

WordsSchoolChildMeBlackThought

We saw more of each other than we did of our wives. We wrote everything together. But how long can you go on doing that? How long can you go on being half an entity?

Denis Norden

TogetherDoingLongYouGoMore

When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.

Clare Bowen

StormPeopleBraveYouKindNeed

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Confucius

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I grew up in Muenchen where my father has been a professor for pharmaceutic chemistry at the university. He had studied chemistry and medicine, having been a research student in Leipzig with Wilhelm Ostwald, the Nobel Laureate 1909. So I became familiar with the life of a scientist in a chemical laboratory quite early.

Wolfgang Paul

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