Stephen Covey Quotes
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The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.
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We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.
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The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.
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The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
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If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me and each other-while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity-then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do-even using so-called good human relations techniques-will be perceived as manipulative.
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If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
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If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.
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The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
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Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.
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Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.
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'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet human needs, and to enjoy spontaneous moments on a daily basis.
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If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.
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Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
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It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.
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The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.
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The way we see the problem is the problem.
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Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.
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Leadership is a choice, not a position
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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
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My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
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Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.
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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.
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Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
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There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.