Stephen Covey Quotes
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You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!
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It's not enough to have values without vision ; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler . An empowering mission statement deals with both character and competence; what you want to be and what you want to do in your life.
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The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.
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You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.
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We can act instead of being acted upon.
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Difference is the beginning of synergy.
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Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.
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People are your most valuable asset. Only people can be made to appreciate in value.
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The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.
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The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
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Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.
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Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.
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In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.
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But borrowing strength builds weakness.
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People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.
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To know and not to do is not to know.
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.
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What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? Quadrant II activities have that kind of impact. Our effectiveness takes quantum leaps when we do them.
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If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.
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I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.
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Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
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Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.
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If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.
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Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.