#ge

This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him. ↗

— Richard M. Helms

#also #any #central #contact #contemplated

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#change #choose #conscience #creative #every

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#cannot #cardinal #continuously #escapes #improve

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#climbing #determines #efficiency #ladder #leadership

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#genuinely #gets #happy #i #instead

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#balance #disciplines #execution #forget #four

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. ↗

— Noel Coward

#always #am #due #having #i

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. ↗

— Noel Coward

#astrology #believe #blame #failures #i

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#enough #few #few people #foolishness #knowledge

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#based #being #correctness #critical #everything