Stephen Covey Quotes
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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
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The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
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As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
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Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow
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We often get so busy "sawing" (producing results) that we forget to "sharpen our saw" (maintain or increase our capacity to produce results in the future).
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It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others
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Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.
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If we spend most of our time concerned about things we cannot truly directly influence, what we can influence will be reduced. If we spend our energies on those things over which we can expect positive results, we will expand our influence.
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The key to the many is often the one; it is how you regard and talk about the one in that one's absence or presence that communicates to the many how you would regard and talk about them in their presence or absence.
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The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
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When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
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The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.
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If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.
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Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
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None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.
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More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
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Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.
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When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
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You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
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I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important people in our lives can become fertile ground for the growth of enduring trust - trust that is actually stronger because it's been tested and proved through challenge.
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Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have.